Frankfort Eviction Risk: Elevated , West Frankfort

SNAP participation runs 33.4% against 15.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 34%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

On the high side, economic stress reads 8.6/10. It sits 1.6 points above the Franklin County average of 4.4.

Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.6/10. Food insecurity runs 28.2% against 17.8% nationally. At $539 a month, rents run 18% under what the rest of West Frankfort commands.

Severe burden reaches 10%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the national scale it lands near the 78th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 14% of average household income of $44,643, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the IL average is 5.1, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

36% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent. 46% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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