Heart of the Westside Eviction Risk: Moderate , Springfield

The dominant input is economic stress at 9.3/10. The poverty rate is 37%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. SNAP participation runs 31.9% against 15.2% nationally.

Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $32,591, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. On the softer side, tenant-organizing strength reads 2/10.

It sits 1.1 points above the Greene County average of 3.7. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 19.1% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

The filing record is not thin: 940 evictions over 9 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2012 at 16.6% of renter households.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 13.1% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #35,669 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

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.