Heart of the Westside Eviction Risk: Moderate

29% are severely burdened, paying half their income or more in rent. That cohort has no absorption capacity for an unexpected bill, and it is where non-payment filings originate. Pulling the other way is rent-regulation exposure, at 1/10. The poverty rate is 29%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest.

On the softer side is tenant-organizing strength, at 2/10. Disability prevalence reaches 49.2% against a 31.5% national average, which raises the odds a reasonable-accommodation request accompanies any dispute. SNAP participation is 28.9% of households versus 15.2% nationally.

Filings are well documented here: 1,578 across 2 observed tracts. Running cool is eviction-process difficulty, at 2.5/10. Filing activity peaked in 2016 at 16.6% of renter households.

Recent filings have not receded much: 10.9% in 2017 against a 16.6% peak. That places it #12 of 25 neighborhoods in Springfield. For a like-for-like read, Sherwood and Tom Watkins score within a fraction of it.

Social vulnerability runs high at 7.6/10, concentrating the disaster- and displacement-exposure this model treats as a lagging risk input.

With little internal variation, 4.7/10 is a fair proxy for any address inside the boundary. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.