The Boulevards Eviction Risk: Moderate , Canton

The poverty rate is 35%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 8.8/10.

Cost burden runs 49% here against 38.2% across Stark County. Against the Stark County average of 4.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.7 points. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 2/10.

Housing insecurity runs 25.5% against 14.2% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 20.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Average gross rent is $1,022, 20% above the Canton average. 10% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

The filing record is not thin: 788 evictions over 15 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2011 at 14.4% of renter households.

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 12.2% of renter households face a filing.

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