South Hills Eviction Risk: Lower , Charleston

On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.6/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.8/10.

The severe-burden share is 16%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. SNAP participation runs 6.4% against 15.2% nationally. It sits 0.9 points below the Kanawha County average of 3.9.

Adults with no health insurance runs 4.2% against 11.3% nationally. At $997 a month, rents run 10% over what the rest of Charleston commands. 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 #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 20% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Against average income of $77,554, annual rent is just 15%. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

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