Vandalia Eviction Risk: Moderate , Charleston

The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $37,708, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Food insecurity runs 33.5% against 17.8% nationally. The severe-burden share is 20%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.8/10.

Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 2/10. The poverty rate is 21%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Average gross rent is $1,051, 16% above the Charleston average.

This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Charleston. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. On the national scale it lands near the 47th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.