The Park Eviction Risk: Moderate

Cost burden runs 27% against 37.8% citywide, putting The Park 10.6% under its own city. Running hot is tenant-organizing strength at 8.7/10. At $1,229 a month, rents sit 27% over what the rest of Normal commands.

Sitting well above the midpoint is rent-regulation exposure at 8.4/10. 16% are severely burdened, paying half their income or more in rent. That cohort has no absorption capacity for an unexpected bill, and it is where non-payment filings originate. The voucher gap is 13.8%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which shows up as churn rather than arrears.

Food insecurity affects 7.7% of adults, 10.1 points below the national rate. 5.0% of adults carry no health insurance against 11.3% nationally, a common route into sudden unpayable debt.

Among the 13 mapped neighborhoods of Normal, it ranks #11 by risk, the lower third. At 27% renter-occupied, this is predominantly owner territory, and rental comps have to be drawn from further out.

The closest comparables inside the same city are Blackstone Trails and Kelly Glen. Against average income of $100,526, annual rent is only 15%, a wide affordability cushion.

Poverty sits at 3%, low enough that arrears here usually reflect a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

Because the boundary contains one tract, 4.5/10 is simultaneously the area figure and the address-level figure. The number is rebuilt whenever its ACS, court-record, or statutory inputs change.