New Town Eviction Risk: Lower , St. Charles

The clearest offset is economic stress at 1/10. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.9/10. The voucher gap is 22.7%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.9/10. Food insecurity runs 7.1% against 17.8% nationally. At $1,491 a month, rents run 19% over what the rest of St. Charles commands.

SNAP participation runs 4.7% against 15.2% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 71 evictions over 8 years of observation.

Filings peaked in 2012 at 2.8% of renter households. In a typical year about 38.1% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 20th 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 1.4/10.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.