South Charleston Eviction Risk: Moderate

The dominant input is economic stress at 9.2/10. The poverty rate is 37%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.8/10.

Disability prevalence runs 45.1% against 31.5% nationally. Against the Kanawha County average of 3.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points.

Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.1/10. Cost burden runs 41% here against 36.9% across Kanawha County. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 16.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Average gross rent is $761, 10% below the South Charleston average. Nationally it ranks #24,859 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 7.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Against average income of $57,927, annual rent is just 16%. Statewide the WV average is 3.8, so this tract runs 1.6 points hotter.

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.