Canton Eviction Risk: Lower

28% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Against Cherokee County at 45.3%, 58% of renters here are cost-burdened.

On the softer side, economic stress reads 1/10. At $2,182 a month, rents run 30% over what the rest of Canton commands.

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.8/10. The voucher gap is 19.2%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Food insecurity runs 7.5% against 17.8% nationally.

SNAP participation runs 5.1% against 15.2% nationally. That is riskier than roughly 35% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

At 11% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 2%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. It tracks the Cherokee County average of 4.0 closely.

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