Palatine Eviction Risk: Moderate , Fairmont

SNAP participation runs 42.5% against 15.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 41%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. This is renter territory: 83% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Set annual rent against average income of $24,375 and the ratio lands at 35%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. 22% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. 48% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Marion County average of 37.8%.

Against the Marion County average of 3.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.7 points. Food insecurity runs 32.9% against 17.8% nationally.

Running cool, state political climate reads 1.8/10. At $705 a month, rents run 23% under what the rest of Fairmont commands. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 2/10.

On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 7.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

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