Loudon Heights Eviction Risk: Lower , Charleston

At $1,298 a month, rents run 43% over what the rest of Charleston commands. The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1/10.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.8/10. The voucher gap is 23.2%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Food insecurity runs 5.7% against 17.8% nationally.

SNAP participation runs 4.5% against 15.2% nationally. Against the Kanawha County average of 3.9, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.9 points. The severe-burden share is 9%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

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. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

At 7% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 2.7/10. Rent consumes only 13% of average household income of $115,387, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

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