West Central Eviction Risk: Moderate , Springfield

Well under the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 2/10. The poverty rate is 26%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. 15% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Running hot, court filing pressure reads 7.9/10. It sits 1.1 points above the Greene County average of 3.7. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 760 filings here across 9 tracked years.

Average gross rent is $855, 11% below the Springfield average. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 14.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Filings peaked in 2017 at 15.0% 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 11.7% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #35,669 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Social vulnerability reads 8.4/10 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.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. 41% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

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.