Wooster Public Square Historic District Eviction Risk: Lower

Severe burden reaches 21%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1.9/10.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.7/10. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.4/10. Food insecurity runs 7.8% against 17.8% nationally.

SNAP participation runs 5.9% against 15.2% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 172 filings here across 12 tracked years.

Filings peaked in 2005 at 8.9% of renter households. At $844 a month, rents run 8% under what the rest of Wooster commands.

In a typical year about 6.9% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #59,654 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Only 11% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.

Social vulnerability reads 1.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.