Downtown Canton Eviction Risk: Moderate

The strongest single driver of the headline number is economic stress at 10/10. The poverty rate is 48%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest.

Against a Canton baseline of 29.2%, 42% of renters here cross the 30%-of-income line. SNAP participation is 39.3% of households versus 15.2% nationally. This is a renter market: 87% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Running hot is tenant-organizing strength at 9.3/10. Running cool is supply constraint, at 1/10. 20.8% of adults report being unable to pay a utility bill, against a 9.2% national figure. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

The severe-burden share is 15%. Those renters are past the 50% mark, and they miss rent for reasons that have nothing to do with willingness to pay. The filing record is not thin: 545 evictions logged in this tract.

Filing activity peaked in 2005 at 10.7% of renter households. The most recent observed rate, 5.1% in 2018, is well off that peak. That places it #1 of 11 neighborhoods in Canton.

For a like-for-like read, Upper Downtown Canton Historic District and The Boulevards score within a fraction of it.

One tract means one number: 5.8/10 applies directly to any address inside the boundary. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.