Mount Vernon Eviction Risk: Moderate

What pushes the score up most is economic stress at 9.4/10. The poverty rate is 37%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest. Running cool is rent-regulation exposure, at 1/10.

20.8% of adults report being unable to pay a utility bill, against a 9.2% national figure. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. This is a renter market: 65% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. 20% are severely burdened, paying half their income or more in rent. That cohort has no absorption capacity for an unexpected bill, and it is where non-payment filings originate.

Food insecurity affects 35.4% of adults, 17.6 points above the national rate. At $912 a month, rents sit 18% under what the rest of Columbus commands.

Well under the midpoint is eviction-process difficulty, at 2.5/10. That places it #1 of 48 neighborhoods in Columbus.

For a like-for-like read, Holly Hills and Rose Hill score within a fraction of it.

One tract means one number: 5/10 applies directly to any address inside the boundary. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.