South Fountain Avenue Historic District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Springfield

The poverty rate is 51%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Cost burden runs roughly one in two here against 39.6% across Clark County.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.9/10. Housing insecurity runs 32.0% against 14.2% nationally. 22% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Annualized rent equals 34% of average household income of $27,437, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Disability prevalence runs 47.8% against 31.5% nationally.

This is renter territory: 70% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.9/10. Against the Clark County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points.

Court records carry 657 eviction filings across 6 observed years. The worst year on record was 2005, when 14.0% of renter households were served.

At $778 a month, rents run 9% under what the rest of Springfield commands. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 10.6% of renter households face a filing.

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