Granite City Eviction Risk: Moderate

The main counterweight is supply constraint at 1/10. At $615 a month, rents run 26% under what the rest of Granite City commands. Cost burden runs 49% here against 42.1% across Madison County.

The filing record is not thin: 236 evictions over 11 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2005 at 4.6% of renter households.

This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for East St. Louis. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 3.0% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 58th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 19% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Social vulnerability reads 3.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Rent consumes only 13% of average household income of $58,973, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

It tracks the Madison County average of 4.8 closely.

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.