Poplar Place Eviction Risk: Moderate , Springfield

Severe burden reaches 26%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The dominant input is economic stress at 8.5/10. The poverty rate is 34%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Housing insecurity runs 31.6% against 14.2% nationally. Annualized rent equals 32% of average household income of $34,667, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 2.5/10.

Against the Sangamon County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points. 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.

On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 8.7/10 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. 41% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.