Five Points Eviction Risk: Elevated , Cleveland

It sits 2.8 points above the Cuyahoga County average of 4.6. Food insecurity runs 38.7% against 17.8% nationally.

Annualized rent equals 40% of average household income of $19,392, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10.

Against Cuyahoga County at 43.0%, 55% of renters here are cost-burdened. The poverty rate is 33%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Running hot, housing-court posture reads 8.9/10. Housing insecurity runs 28.6% against 14.2% nationally.

14% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Average gross rent is $654, 16% below the East Cleveland average. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,488 filings here across 12 tracked years.

The worst year on record was 2007, when 21.0% of renter households were served. 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.

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