Canton Eviction Risk: Moderate

Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 7.7/10.

The severe-burden share is 12%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The filing record is not thin: 621 evictions over 15 years of observation.

Average gross rent is $969, 14% above the Canton average. It sits 0.6 points above the Stark County average of 4.1. The worst year on record was 2017, when 6.8% of renter households were served.

This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Canton. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 5.7% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 55th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. 38% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent. Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $51,061.

46% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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