Plainfield Eviction Risk: Lower

The clearest offset is economic stress at 1/10. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.6/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10.

The voucher gap is 16.9%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. SNAP participation runs 6.9% against 15.2% nationally.

9% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. That is riskier than roughly 27% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Only 12% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Against average income of $105,826, annual rent is just 17%. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

Poverty sits at 3%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.