South Park Eviction Risk: Lower , Charleston

The severe-burden share is 24%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.8/10.

On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.9/10. Against the Kanawha County average of 3.9, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.9 points.

Food insecurity runs 9.8% against 17.8% nationally. Against Kanawha County at 36.9%, around a third of renters here are cost-burdened.

Average gross rent is $998, 10% above the Charleston average. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground A ("Best"). 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. Social vulnerability reads 3.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 13% of average household income of $91,207, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. 33% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.