Downtown Canton Arts District Eviction Risk: Moderate

SNAP participation is 45.2% of households versus 15.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 42%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest.

The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.3/10. Food insecurity affects 40.8% of adults, 23.0 points above the national rate.

Severe burden reaches 26%. A tenant at that level absorbs no shock: one cut shift or one repair bill converts directly into arrears. On the high side is economic stress at 8.8/10.

This is a renter market: 72% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Well under the midpoint is eviction-process difficulty, at 2/10. Court records carry 4,797 eviction filings across its 3 observed tracts.

At $729 a month, rents sit 14% under what the rest of Canton commands. The worst year on record was 2012, when filings touched 19.3% of renter households.

With little internal variation, 5.8/10 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.