Within parent city
0
th percentile
Very Low
Census Tract · Ranked #34,278 of 84,120 nationally
Athens Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 39009973300 · Athens County, OH · pop 3,927 · 43% of tract blocks fall in Athens
Tract 39009973300 sits in Athens, OH, carrying an eviction-risk score of 4.9/10. Severe burden reaches 50%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
4.9
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 18%
Stable renters 12%
Owners 70%
Tract context
Occupied units1,776
Renter share30.2%
SVI overall0.16
Poverty rate10.4%
Median income$77,941
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
50
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
69
th percentile
Elevated
National
59
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Athens and the region
Centroid at 39.3013, -82.0483 · click any tract to drill in
Why Athens scores 4.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Athens
6.2
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.8
State political climate
Ohio legislature & governorship
2.4
Economic stress
10.4% poverty · this tract
2.6
Supply constraint
$978 rent vs county FMR
4.4
Rent control risk
Inherited from Athens
9.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Athens
9.7
Housing court bias
Inherited from Athens
9.6
How Athens compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 16
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 31%Socioeconomic
- 4%Household composition
- 30%Racial/ethnic minority
- 37%Housing & transportation
Eviction filings
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 89Total filings over 15 yrs
- 0.97%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.5%Peak (2011)
- 7Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 250% over the past 15 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 6.8%Housing insecurity
- 5.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 7.4%Food insecurity
- 5.3%SNAP enrollment
- 5.1%Transit barriers
- 4.8%No health insurance
- 15.3%Frequent mental distress
- 20.9%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Athens
The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.7/10. On the high side, housing-court posture reads 9.6/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 9.5/10.
Against Athens County at 47.1%, 60% of renters here are cost-burdened. SNAP participation runs 5.3% against 15.2% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 89 filings here across 15 tracked years.
Housing insecurity runs 6.8% against 14.2% nationally. The worst year on record was 2011, when 1.5% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 1.0% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 59% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 2.5/10. Against average income of $77,941, annual rent is just 15%.
Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. It tracks the Athens County average of 5.3 closely.
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.
Frequently asked
About tract 39009973300
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39009973300?
Census tract 39009973300 in Athens scores 4.9/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 39009973300?
Median gross rent is $978/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 60% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 39009973300?
10.4% of residents in tract 39009973300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,927.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 39009973300?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 16th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 31th, household 4th, minority 30th, housing 37th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 39009973300?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 89 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 39009973300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 0.97% of renter households, peaking at 1.5% in 2011. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 39009973300 struggle to pay rent?
About 6.8% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 5.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 39009973300 compare to Athens overall?
Tract 39009973300 scores 4.9/10, lower than the parent city of Athens at 6.3/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Athens; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Athens
Top eight tracts in Athens ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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