Upper Downtown Canton Historic District Eviction Risk: Moderate

The poverty rate is 33%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. 20% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

It sits 1.7 points above the Stark County average of 4.1. On the high side, economic stress reads 8.2/10.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 21.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 2/10. Housing insecurity runs 26.0% against 14.2% nationally.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,364 filings here across 15 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2006 at 15.1% of renter households.

This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 13.1% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 76th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.2/10. Statewide the OH average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.6 points hotter.

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.