East St. Louis Eviction Risk: Moderate

72% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, far above the St. Clair County average of 44.8%. The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10.

SNAP participation runs 71.7% against 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity runs 61.0% against 17.8% nationally.

The poverty rate is 48%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10.

Annualized rent equals 35% of average household income of $24,135, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. 70% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.

Average gross rent is $695, 18% below the East St. Louis average. Against the St. Clair County average of 4.5, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.9 points.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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. Nationally it ranks #24,859 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.7/10.

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.