Weller Eviction Risk: Moderate , Springfield

Severe burden reaches 20%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running cool, tenant-organizing strength reads 2/10.

The poverty rate is 26%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 7.9/10.

Against the Greene County average of 3.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. The filing record is not thin: 504 evictions over 9 years of observation. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 14.4% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Filings peaked in 2014 at 12.3% of renter households. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Springfield. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

In a typical year about 9.8% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #35,669 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Social vulnerability reads 6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the MO average is 3.8, so this tract runs 1.0 points hotter.

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.