Harrison Park Eviction Risk: Lower

The clearest offset is economic stress, at 1/10. Average gross rent is $1,280, 31% above the Springfield average of $975.

23% 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. Running cool is rent-regulation exposure, at 2.5/10.

Food insecurity affects 6.6% of adults, 11.2 points below the national rate. The voucher gap is 13.1%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which shows up as churn rather than arrears.

3.9% of adults report being unable to pay a utility bill, below a 9.2% national figure. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. That places it #13 of 16 neighborhoods in Springfield. At 19% renter-occupied, this is predominantly owner territory, and rental comps have to be drawn from further out.

For a like-for-like read, Lake Knolls and West Road Park score within a fraction of it. Rent takes 13% of average household income, comfortably inside the 30% line and unusually low for a rental sub-market. 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, 3/10 is simultaneously the area figure and the address-level figure. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.