H &K Trailer Court Eviction Risk: Elevated , Decatur

The poverty rate is 28%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 7.8/10. 43% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Macon County average of 34.1%.

It sits 1.3 points above the Macon County average of 4.7. Severe burden reaches 11%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running hot, economic stress reads 7.1/10.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground A ("Best"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. Nationally it ranks #18,163 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Only 23% 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.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.7/10. Statewide the IL average is 5.1, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $58,036.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.