Canton Eviction Risk: Moderate

What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.1/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.1/10. Severe burden reaches 22%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.8/10. SNAP participation runs 7.4% against 15.2% nationally.

On the national scale it lands near the 51st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. It tracks the Cherokee County average of 4.0 closely.

Average gross rent is $1,626, close to the Canton average. Annual rent works out to 21% of average household income of $94,717.

28% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.