Joplin Eviction Risk: Lower , Charleston

The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. At $1,200 a month, rents run 32% over what the rest of Charleston commands.

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.4/10. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.8/10.

It sits 0.9 points below the Kanawha County average of 3.9. Housing insecurity runs 6.2% against 14.2% nationally.

The voucher gap is 13.9%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Adults with no health insurance runs 3.8% against 11.3% nationally. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Only 16% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Against average income of $118,527, annual rent is just 12%. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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