Canton Eviction Risk: Lower

On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.4/10. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.5/10. At $633 a month, rents run 26% under what the rest of Canton commands.

The severe-burden share is 14%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Against Stark County at 38.2%, roughly one in three of renters here are cost-burdened.

The filing record is not thin: 707 evictions over 15 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2005, when 12.9% of renter households were served. 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 7.4% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 31st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 24% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 10% of average household income of $77,614, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

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.