Northgate Eviction Risk: Elevated , Springfield

The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 7.2/10. The poverty rate is 22%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Severe burden reaches 12%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. 43% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Sangamon County average of 38.5%. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Springfield. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

Nationally it ranks #18,163 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 4.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the IL average is 5.1, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. Average gross rent is $985, close to the Grandview average. Annual rent works out to 25% of average household income of $46,859.

35% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.