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Census Tract · Ranked #34,278 of 84,120 nationally

Urbana Eviction Risk: Moderate

Tract 39021010400 · Champaign County, OH · pop 3,560 · 83% of tract blocks fall in Urbana

Tract 39021010400 sits in Urbana, OH, carrying an eviction-risk score of 4.9/10. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 8.2/10.

Risk score
4.9
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 13% Stable renters 35% Owners 52%
Tract context
Occupied units1,701
Renter share48.7%
SVI overall0.62
Poverty rate14.7%
Median income$65,645

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within parent city
75 th percentile
Rank, 75th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 5 tracts In Urbana
High
Within county
89 th percentile
Rank, 89th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 10 tracts In Champaign County
High
Within state
69 th percentile
Rank, 69th percentileLowHigh
#980 of 3,162 tracts In Ohio
Elevated
National
59 th percentile
Rank, 59th percentileLowHigh
#34,278 of 84,120 tracts In U.S.
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Urbana and the region

Centroid at 40.1384, -83.7874 · click any tract to drill in

Why Urbana scores 4.9

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Urbana
3.4
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
2.6
State political climate
Ohio legislature & governorship
2.4
Economic stress
14.7% poverty · this tract
3.7
Supply constraint
$936 rent vs county FMR
5.3
Rent control risk
Inherited from Urbana
2.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.9
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Urbana
8.2
Housing court bias
Inherited from Urbana
4.3

How Urbana compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Urbana risk score vs. parent city / county / state4.9This tracttract 0104004.0Urbanaparent city3.9Countyavg tract in county4.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 62

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

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)

  • 512Total filings over 12 yrs
  • 6.12%Avg annual filing rate
  • 7.5%Peak (2011)
  • 48Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2003 to 2018
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 39021010400
Filings climbed 26% over the past 12 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Urbana

Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.9/10. Cost burden runs 28% here against 35.2% across Champaign County. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.4/10.

Against the Champaign County average of 3.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.0 points. Court records carry 512 eviction filings across 12 observed years.

9% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The worst year on record was 2011, when 7.5% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 6.1% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 59% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Social vulnerability reads 6.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Against average income of $65,645, annual rent is just 17%.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 39021010400

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39021010400?

Census tract 39021010400 in Urbana 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 39021010400?

Median gross rent is $936/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 28% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 39021010400?

14.7% of residents in tract 39021010400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,560.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 39021010400?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 62th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 60th, household 47th, minority 12th, housing 81th.
Q5

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 39021010400?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 512 eviction filings across 12 validated years in tract 39021010400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 6.12% of renter households, peaking at 7.5% in 2011. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6

What share of households in tract 39021010400 struggle to pay rent?

About 13.5% 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. 9.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 39021010400 compare to Urbana overall?

Tract 39021010400 scores 4.9/10, higher than the parent city of Urbana at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Urbana; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Urbana

Top eight tracts in Urbana ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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