Flats West Bank Eviction Risk: Elevated

The poverty rate is 60%, which shows up in this model as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. 91% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building two streets over.

SNAP participation is 36.8% of households versus 15.2% nationally. 22.5% of adults report being unable to pay a utility bill, against a 9.2% national figure. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Cost burden runs 24% against 31.5% citywide, putting Flats West Bank 7.5% under its own city. On the softer side is rent-regulation exposure, at 2/10. The filing record is not thin: 2,737 evictions logged in this tract.

11% are severely burdened, paying half their income or more in rent. That cohort has no absorption capacity for an unexpected bill, and it is where non-payment filings originate. The worst year on record was 2004, when filings touched 51.6% of renter households.

At $1,025 a month, rents sit 8% over what the rest of Cleveland commands. The most recent observed rate, 16.3% in 2016, is well off that peak. Among the 57 mapped neighborhoods of Cleveland, it ranks #2 by risk, the upper third.

Because the boundary contains one tract, 6/10 is simultaneously the area figure and the address-level figure. The number is rebuilt whenever its ACS, court-record, or statutory inputs change.