East Springfield Eviction Risk: Elevated

Severe burden reaches 28%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 8.5/10.

Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.5/10. Against the Hampden County average of 5.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.9 points. At $974 a month, rents run 15% under what the rest of Springfield commands.

On the high side, local political climate reads 7/10. Food insecurity runs 24.9% against 17.8% nationally.

Housing insecurity runs 21.2% against 14.2% nationally. On the national scale it lands near the 83rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

At 19% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.6/10. Against average income of $77,279, annual rent is just 15%.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.