Westside Eviction Risk: Moderate , Springfield

28% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. The poverty rate is 30%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Disability prevalence runs 45.6% against 31.5% nationally. On the softer side, tenant-organizing strength reads 2/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, 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 534 filings here across 9 tracked years. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 14.3% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Average gross rent is $877, 9% below the Springfield average. Filings peaked in 2016 at 8.0% of renter households.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 8.0% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #35,669 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.3/10. 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.