Woodland Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate

The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure, at 1/10. Severe burden reaches 24%. A tenant at that level absorbs no shock: one cut shift or one repair bill converts directly into arrears. On the softer side is tenant-organizing strength, at 2/10.

The poverty rate is 20%, which shows up in this model as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Internally this is not one market. Tract scores span 3.8 to 4.8, so two buildings inside the same boundary can carry materially different risk. Court records carry 895 eviction filings across its 2 observed tracts.

Running cool is eviction-process difficulty, at 2.5/10. The worst year on record was 2017, when filings touched 10.9% of renter households.

Among the 25 mapped neighborhoods of Springfield, it ranks #14 by risk, the middle third. Judgments average 4.7% of renter households a year, the share of filings that actually convert to an order.

The closest comparables inside the same city are Phelps Grove/University Heights and Doling Park. Average gross rent runs $955, close to the Springfield average. Annual rent works out to 27% of average household income of $43,154.

63% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

Underwrite the address, not the area: with 1 points between its best and worst tract, the per-tract table below is the operative number. The number is rebuilt whenever its ACS, court-record, or statutory inputs change.