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Census Tract · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally

Berea Eviction Risk: Lower

Tract 39035134203 · Cuyahoga County, OH · pop 3,203 · 97% of tract blocks fall in Berea

Tract 39035134203 sits in Berea, OH, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3/10. It is home to 3,203 residents. The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10.

Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 0% Stable renters 0% Owners 100%
Tract context
Occupied units1,215
Renter share0.4%
SVI overall0.01
Poverty rate2.4%
Median income$127,135

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within parent city
20 th percentile
Rank, 20th percentileLowHigh
#5 of 6 tracts In Berea
Low
Within county
13 th percentile
Rank, 13th percentileLowHigh
#370 of 427 tracts In Cuyahoga County
Very Low
Within state
31 th percentile
Rank, 31st percentileLowHigh
#2,197 of 3,162 tracts In Ohio
Low
National
20 th percentile
Rank, 20th percentileLowHigh
#67,219 of 84,120 tracts In U.S.
Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across Berea and the region

Centroid at 41.3774, -81.8796 · click any tract to drill in

Why Berea scores 3

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Berea
4.4
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.7
State political climate
Ohio legislature & governorship
2.4
Economic stress
2.4% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
tract rent vs county FMR
5.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Berea
3.9
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.7
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Berea
6.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Berea
4.4

How Berea compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Berea risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.0This tracttract 1342033.7Bereaparent city4.6Countyavg tract in county4.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 1

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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)

  • 45Total filings over 11 yrs
  • 4.59%Avg annual filing rate
  • 8.9%Peak (2005)
  • 3Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2004 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 39035134203
Filings dropped 40% 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 Berea

Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10. Against the Cuyahoga County average of 4.6, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.6 points.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.4/10. SNAP participation runs 6.6% against 15.2% nationally. Court records carry 45 eviction filings across 11 observed years.

Food insecurity runs 9.4% against 17.8% nationally. Filings peaked in 2005 at 8.9% of renter households.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 4.6% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 0% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

Social vulnerability reads 1.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 39035134203

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39035134203?

Census tract 39035134203 in Berea scores 3/10 (Lower 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 poverty rate in tract 39035134203?

2.4% of residents in tract 39035134203 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,203.
Q3

How socially vulnerable is tract 39035134203?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 1th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 11th, household 8th, minority 36th, housing 0th.
Q4

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 39035134203?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 45 eviction filings across 11 validated years in tract 39035134203 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.59% of renter households, peaking at 8.9% in 2005. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q5

What share of households in tract 39035134203 struggle to pay rent?

About 8.5% 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. 6.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q6

How does tract 39035134203 compare to Berea overall?

Tract 39035134203 scores 3/10, lower than the parent city of Berea at 3.7/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Berea; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q7

Was tract 39035134203 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Berea

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

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