Wooster Eviction Risk: Lower

The severe-burden share is 20%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.7/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.4/10.

At $1,086 a month, rents run 18% over what the rest of Wooster commands. Court records carry 341 eviction filings across 12 observed years. Food insecurity runs 9.8% against 17.8% nationally.

The voucher gap is 14.3%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. SNAP participation runs 7.6% against 15.2% nationally. The worst year on record was 2003, when 5.3% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 3.3% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 33rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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.