Fairfield Eviction Risk: Moderate

Severe burden reaches 22%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.9/10.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.4/10. The filing record is not thin: 696 evictions over 13 years of observation.

The worst year on record was 2009, when 34.2% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

In a typical year about 10.6% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #39,308 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. 41% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

It tracks the Butler County average of 4.3 closely.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.