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Neighborhood · Ranked #18,163 of 84,120 nationally

Fairfax Eviction Risk: Elevated , Cleveland

Tract 39035198500 · Cuyahoga County, OH · pop 1,965 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi

Tract 39035198500 sits in the Fairfax area of Cleveland eviction risk, OH, carrying an eviction-risk score of 6/10. It is home to 1,965 residents. SNAP participation runs 42.1% against 15.2% nationally.

Risk score
6
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 26% Stable renters 29% Owners 45%
Tract context
Occupied units677
Renter share54.9%
SVI overall0.87
Poverty rate30.8%
Median income$37,462

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Fairfax
Moderate
Within parent city
42 th percentile
Rank, 42nd percentileLowHigh
#93 of 159 tracts In Cleveland
Moderate
Within county
86 th percentile
Rank, 86th percentileLowHigh
#62 of 427 tracts In Cuyahoga County
High
Within state
99 th percentile
Rank, 99th percentileLowHigh
#47 of 3,162 tracts In Ohio
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Cleveland and the region

Centroid at 41.4940, -81.6211 · click any tract to drill in

Why Fairfax scores 6

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Cleveland
7.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.7
State political climate
Ohio legislature & governorship
2.4
Economic stress
30.8% poverty · this tract
7.7
Supply constraint
$1,041 rent vs county FMR
3.6
Rent control risk
Inherited from Cleveland
2.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Cleveland
6.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Cleveland
5.0

How Fairfax compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Fairfax risk score vs. parent city / county / state6.0This tracttract 1985004.6Clevelandparent city4.6Countyavg tract in county4.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 87

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. 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

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 120Total filings 2020-21
  • 1.6Avg monthly (observed)
  • 3.1Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.50×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Cleveland, OH as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

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 Fairfax

Severe burden reaches 32%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Housing insecurity runs 31.0% against 14.2% nationally.

Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $37,462, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 8.2/10. The poverty rate is 31%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10. It sits 1.4 points above the Cuyahoga County average of 4.6.

On the high side, economic stress reads 7.7/10. Against Cuyahoga County at 43.0%, 48% of renters here are cost-burdened. Average gross rent is $1,041, 10% above the Cleveland average.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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. On the national scale it lands near the 78th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 39035198500

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39035198500?

Census tract 39035198500 in the Fairfax neighborhood scores 6/10 (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 39035198500?

Median gross rent is $1,041/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 48% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 39035198500?

30.8% of residents in tract 39035198500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,965.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 39035198500?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 87th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 88th, household 90th, minority 96th, housing 50th.
Q5

Is tract 39035198500 considered part of Fairfax?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 39035198500 fall within Fairfax (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 39035198500 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.50× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings dropped sharply, likely a moratorium effect. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Cleveland eviction risk, OH), 2020-2021.
Q7

What share of households in tract 39035198500 struggle to pay rent?

About 31.0% 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. 25.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 39035198500 compare to Cleveland overall?

Tract 39035198500 scores 6/10, higher than the parent city of Cleveland at 4.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Cleveland eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9

Was tract 39035198500 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 71% 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.
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Top eight tracts in Cleveland ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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