West Road Park Eviction Risk: Lower , Springfield
Tract 17167003604 · Sangamon County, IL · pop 5,391 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Census tract 17167003604 belongs to the West Road Park area of Springfield, Illinois. It is home to 5,391 residents and scores 4.6/10, a moderate reading for landlords. It lands near the 26th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
About 37% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a high level, and 15% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $1,241 a month while the average household earns $90,921 a year, roughly 16% of income at the averages. Renters make up 36% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Springfield and the region
Centroid at 39.7675, -89.7264 · click any tract to drill in
Why West Road Park scores 2.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow West Road Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 26
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 5%Socioeconomic
- 61%Household composition
- 39%Racial/ethnic minority
- 52%Housing & transportation
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 5.9%Housing insecurity
- 3.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 6.5%Food insecurity
- 5.2%SNAP enrollment
- 4.0%Transit barriers
- 4.3%No health insurance
- 12.1%Frequent mental distress
- 24.3%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in West Road Park
What moves this score most is supply constraint at $1/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Springfield eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores below the Sangamon County average of 4.9 and below the Illinois statewide average of 5.4. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 26th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
In CDC survey modeling, about 5.9% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 3.7% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 17167003604
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