Decatur Eviction Risk: Elevated

53% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Macon County average of 34.1%. The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10.

The poverty rate is 48%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Food insecurity runs 36.2% against 17.8% nationally. Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $32,522, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.8/10. It sits 1.3 points above the Macon County average of 4.7.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 19.3% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Decatur. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. That is riskier than roughly 78% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Social vulnerability reads 8.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the IL average is 5.1, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter.

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