Springfield Eviction Filing Overview

Author

Eviction Lab

Published

March 13, 2026

Springfield has 42,595 renter households. There were 2,292 eviction filings in Springfield in 2025. The city currently has an eviction filing rate of 5.38%.

Figure 1: Eviction Filings in Springfield

Overall there were 2,154 in the past year (March 2025-February 2026) in Springfield, MO. In February 2026 alone, there were 146 eviction filings.

Springfield

Households Threatened & Serial Filings

Springfields’s serial filing rate is 14.02%. There were 4,431 filings against 3,694 unique households. Of those, 518 received more than one filing.

District Analysis

District 3 had the most filings in 2025, with 733 filings. The district with the fewest filings was District 4 with 377 filings.

District 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 YTD
1 549 578 586 661 599 571 65
2 439 464 511 544 612 611 83
3 409 420 576 648 596 733 96
4 262 280 396 401 410 377 56
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District 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 YTD
1 6.97% 7.33% 7.43% 8.39% 7.60% 7.24% 0.82%
2 4.16% 4.40% 4.84% 5.15% 5.80% 5.79% 0.79%
3 2.80% 2.87% 3.94% 4.43% 4.08% 5.02% 0.66%
4 2.63% 2.81% 3.97% 4.02% 4.11% 3.78% 0.56%
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At 7.24%, District 1 had the highest eviction filing rate in 2025. District 4 had the lowest, at 3.78%.

Filings By District

The following maps show in which Census tracts the most filings occurred over the past year.