Massillon Eviction Risk: Lower

Severe burden reaches 15%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running cool, state political climate reads 2.4/10. Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.4/10.

Food insecurity runs 9.1% against 17.8% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 306 evictions over 15 years of observation. It sits 0.9 points below the Stark County average of 4.1.

SNAP participation runs 7.3% against 15.2% nationally. Filings peaked in 2006 at 6.5% of renter households.

In a typical year about 3.8% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #63,308 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $69,347, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the OH average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.0 points cooler.

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