South Town Eviction Risk: Moderate , Springfield

The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10. SNAP participation runs 54.3% against 15.2% nationally.

The poverty rate is 54%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Annualized rent equals 48% of average household income of $26,050, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 26.4% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 2.5/10. Against the Sangamon County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points. Against Sangamon County at 38.5%, 44% of renters here are cost-burdened.

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. That is riskier than roughly 70% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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.