Springfield Eviction Risk: Moderate

Housing insecurity runs 33.2% against 14.2% nationally. This is renter territory: 79% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 24.4% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 2.5/10. The poverty rate is 24%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. It sits 1.2 points above the Sangamon County average of 4.2.

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 #24,859 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

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. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

36% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent. Average gross rent is $933, close to the Springfield average.

Annual rent works out to 29% of average household income of $37,986.

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.