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Neighborhood · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally

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.

Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 42% Stable renters 19% Owners 39%
Tract context
Occupied units1,300
Renter share60.8%
SVI overall0.89
Poverty rate36.7%
Median income$22,284

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 2 tracts In Poplar Place
Very High
Within parent city
61 th percentile
Rank, 61st percentileLowHigh
#16 of 39 tracts In Springfield
Elevated
Within county
87 th percentile
Rank, 87th percentileLowHigh
#8 of 54 tracts In Sangamon County
High
Within state
63 th percentile
Rank, 63rd percentileLowHigh
#1,219 of 3,263 tracts In Illinois
Elevated
Geographic context

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-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Springfield
5.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.8
State political climate
Illinois legislature & governorship
5.2
Economic stress
36.7% poverty · this tract
9.2
Supply constraint
$1,029 rent vs county FMR
4.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from Springfield
2.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
4.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Springfield
4.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Springfield
4.0

How Poplar Place compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Poplar Place risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.4This tracttract 0016004.0Springfieldparent city4.2Countyavg tract in county5.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 89

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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.

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.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Poplar Place. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress

Eviction-adjacent indicators

Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.

Analysis

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 17167001600

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 17167001600?

Census tract 17167001600 in the Poplar Place neighborhood scores 5.4/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 17167001600?

Median gross rent is $1,029/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 69% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 17167001600?

36.7% of residents in tract 17167001600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,070.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 17167001600?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 89th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 96th, household 91th, minority 85th, housing 47th.
Q5

Is tract 17167001600 considered part of Poplar Place?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 17167001600 fall within Poplar Place (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 17167001600 struggle to pay rent?

About 37.9% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 31.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 17167001600 compare to Springfield overall?

Tract 17167001600 scores 5.4/10, higher than the parent city of Springfield at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Springfield eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 17167001600 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 37% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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