Ashtabula Eviction Risk: Moderate

The poverty rate is 39%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.6/10.

SNAP participation runs 30.6% against 15.2% nationally. On the high side, housing-court posture reads 8.4/10.

18% 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 1.6 points above the Ashtabula County average of 4.2.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 671 filings here across 15 tracked years. Housing insecurity runs 21.8% against 14.2% nationally.

Average gross rent is $900, 13% above the Ashtabula average. The worst year on record was 2016, when 7.5% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 6.3% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #20,506 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the OH average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.6 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.