Northgate Eviction Risk: Lower , Springfield
Tract 17167000501 · Sangamon County, IL · pop 2,541 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi
With a score of 3.4/10, tract 17167000501 in the Northgate area of Springfield, IL reads lower for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,541 residents. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 2.5/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Springfield and the region
Centroid at 39.8379, -89.6108 · click any tract to drill in
Why Northgate scores 3.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Northgate compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 18
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 13%Socioeconomic
- 79%Household composition
- 22%Racial/ethnic minority
- 10%Housing & transportation
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Northgate. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 9.6%Housing insecurity
- 6.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 11.0%Food insecurity
- 10.4%SNAP enrollment
- 6.2%Transit barriers
- 6.2%No health insurance
- 15.3%Frequent mental distress
- 30.0%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Northgate
Running cool, economic stress reads 2.8/10. Against Sangamon County at 38.5%, around a third of renters here are cost-burdened.
Average gross rent is $1,130, 16% above the Springfield average. Severe burden reaches 9%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Against the Sangamon County average of 4.2, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.8 points. On the national scale it lands near the 29th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
At 6% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Statute speed, court posture and rent-regulation exposure are inherited from Springfield eviction risk rather than measured on these blocks; the economic and supply components are the tract-level part of the score.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 2.6/10. Rent consumes only 13% of average household income of $100,865, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the IL average is 5.1, so this tract runs 1.7 points cooler.
Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
About tract 17167000501
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