Poplar Place Eviction Risk: Moderate , Springfield
Tract 17167001600 · Sangamon County, IL · pop 3,070 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Census tract 17167001600 covers part of the Poplar Place area of Springfield, IL, and scores 5.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,070. Severe burden reaches 61%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Springfield and the region
Centroid at 39.7958, -89.6195 · click any tract to drill in
Why Poplar Place scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Poplar Place compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 89
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 96%Socioeconomic
- 91%Household composition
- 85%Racial/ethnic minority
- 47%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 37%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Poplar Place. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 37.9%Housing insecurity
- 31.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 51.9%Food insecurity
- 61.9%SNAP enrollment
- 26.6%Transit barriers
- 16.1%No health insurance
- 24.3%Frequent mental distress
- 49.7%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Poplar Place
Cost burden runs around two-thirds here against 38.5% across Sangamon County. Annualized rent equals 55% of average household income of $22,284, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.
Housing insecurity runs 37.9% against 14.2% nationally. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 9.2/10.
The poverty rate is 37%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Disability prevalence runs 49.7% against 31.5% nationally.
On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 2.5/10. It sits 1.2 points above the Sangamon County average of 4.2. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.
That is riskier than roughly 70% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
About tract 17167001600
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