Within parent city
17
th percentile
Very Low
Census Tract · Ranked #15,451 of 84,120 nationally
Athens Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 39009973400 · Athens County, OH · pop 3,555 · 24% of tract blocks fall in Athens
Census tract 39009973400 covers part of Athens, OH, and scores 6.5/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,555 residents. The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.7/10.
Risk score
6.5
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 14%
Stable renters 19%
Owners 67%
Tract context
Occupied units1,518
Renter share32.9%
SVI overall0.60
Poverty rate20.9%
Median income$51,406
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
64
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
99
th percentile
Very High
National
82
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Athens and the region
Centroid at 39.3751, -82.0869 · click any tract to drill in
Why Athens scores 6.5
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
20.9% poverty · this tract
5.2
Supply constraint
$722 rent vs county FMR
1.9
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: 60
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 70%Socioeconomic
- 51%Household composition
- 6%Racial/ethnic minority
- 62%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)
- 183Total filings over 15 yrs
- 2.32%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.9%Peak (2018)
- 19Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 111% 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.
- 11.8%Housing insecurity
- 9.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 15.8%Food insecurity
- 15.3%SNAP enrollment
- 8.7%Transit barriers
- 8.5%No health insurance
- 18.5%Frequent mental distress
- 32.3%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Athens
Running hot, housing-court posture reads 9.6/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 9.5/10. Average gross rent is $722, 29% below the Athens average.
Severe burden reaches 15%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. It sits 1.2 points above the Athens County average of 5.3. The poverty rate is 21%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
42% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Athens County average of 47.1%. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 183 filings here across 15 tracked years.
Filings peaked in 2018 at 2.9% of renter households. In a typical year about 2.3% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 82nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.4/10.
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 39009973400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39009973400?
Census tract 39009973400 in Athens scores 6.5/10 (Elevated 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 39009973400?
Median gross rent is $722/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 42% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 39009973400?
20.9% of residents in tract 39009973400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,555.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 39009973400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 60th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 70th, household 51th, minority 6th, housing 62th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 39009973400?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 183 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 39009973400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.32% of renter households, peaking at 2.9% in 2018. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 39009973400 struggle to pay rent?
About 11.8% 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. 9.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 39009973400 compare to Athens overall?
Tract 39009973400 scores 6.5/10, right in line with 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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