Columbus Eviction Risk: Lower

Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1.2/10. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.5/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 2/10.

Disability prevalence runs 19.3% against 31.5% nationally. 11% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

It sits 0.8 points below the Bartholomew County average of 3.8. At $1,287 a month, rents run 11% over what the rest of Columbus commands.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 4.0% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 2.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Rent consumes only 13% of average household income of $121,081, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

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.