Fort Hill Eviction Risk: Moderate , Charleston

The severe-burden share is 34%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.

The poverty rate is 32%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. SNAP participation runs 31.2% against 15.2% nationally. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.8/10.

65% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.8/10. At $713 a month, rents run 21% under what the rest of Charleston commands.

Housing insecurity runs 21.6% against 14.2% nationally. Against the Kanawha County average of 3.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.7 points. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

Nationally it ranks #39,308 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.