Fourth Street Historic District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Massillon

Pulling hardest the other way is state political climate at 2.4/10. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.4/10. SNAP participation runs 24.9% against 15.2% nationally.

Running hot, court filing pressure reads 7.4/10. Severe burden reaches 10%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Court records carry 782 eviction filings across 15 observed years. It sits 0.8 points above the Stark County average of 4.1.

At $779 a month, rents run 10% under what the rest of Massillon commands. The worst year on record was 2006, when 11.1% of renter households were served. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 14.2% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

In a typical year about 7.2% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 59th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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.