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Hills of Spring Creek Eviction Risk: Lower , Northfield

Tract 27131070503 · Rice County, MN · pop 3,242 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi

Tract 27131070503 sits in the Hills of Spring Creek area of Northfield eviction risk, MN, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3/10. It is home to 3,242 residents. Severe burden reaches 39%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 5% Stable renters 2% Owners 93%
Tract context
Occupied units1,205
Renter share6.1%
SVI overall0.02
Poverty rate3.2%
Median income$111,542

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Hills of Spring Creek
Moderate
Within parent city
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#5 of 5 tracts In Northfield
Very Low
Within county
7 th percentile
Rank, 7th percentileLowHigh
#15 of 16 tracts In Rice County
Very Low
Within state
18 th percentile
Rank, 18th percentileLowHigh
#1,230 of 1,502 tracts In Minnesota
Very Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across Northfield and the region

Centroid at 44.4387, -93.1508 · click any tract to drill in

Why Hills of Spring Creek scores 3

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Northfield
5.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.0
State political climate
Minnesota legislature & governorship
4.3
Economic stress
3.2% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$1,167 rent vs county FMR
4.9
Rent control risk
Inherited from Northfield
3.6
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.6
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Northfield
6.6
Housing court bias
Inherited from Northfield
3.9

How Hills of Spring Creek compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Hills of Spring Creek risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.0This tracttract 0705034.0Northfieldparent city4.2Countyavg tract in county4.5Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 2

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

Eviction filings

Court-record eviction history

Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1

Historic baseline (2000–2018)

  • 10Total filings over 4 yrs
  • 2.18%Avg annual filing rate
  • 3.7%Peak (2014)
  • 3Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2013 to 2017
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 27131070503
Filings climbed 200% over the past 4 months.
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 Hills of Spring Creek

74% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, far above the Rice County average of 43.6%. The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10.

Running cool, court filing pressure reads 2.3/10. SNAP participation runs 3.7% against 15.2% nationally. It sits 1.2 points below the Rice County average of 4.2.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 10 filings here across 4 tracked years. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Filings peaked in 2014 at 3.7% of renter households. In a typical year about 2.2% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Only 6% 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. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.1/10. Against average income of $111,542, annual rent is just 13%.

Statewide the MN average is 4.5, so this tract runs 1.5 points cooler.

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 27131070503

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 27131070503?

Census tract 27131070503 in the Hills of Spring Creek neighborhood scores 3/10 (Lower 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 27131070503?

Median gross rent is $1,167/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 74% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 27131070503?

3.2% of residents in tract 27131070503 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,242.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 27131070503?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 2th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 4th, household 18th, minority 11th, housing 3th.
Q5

Is tract 27131070503 considered part of Hills of Spring Creek?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 27131070503 fall within Hills of Spring Creek (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 27131070503?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 10 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 27131070503 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.18% of renter households, peaking at 3.7% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 27131070503 struggle to pay rent?

About 5.3% 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. 3.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 27131070503 compare to Northfield overall?

Tract 27131070503 scores 3/10, lower than the parent city of Northfield at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Northfield eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Northfield

Top eight tracts in Northfield ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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