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

Little Arabia Eviction Risk: Elevated , Cleveland

Tract 39035102101 · Cuyahoga County, OH · pop 3,367 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi

39035102101 is a census tract in the Little Arabia area of Cleveland, OH. It scores 6/10 for landlords. It is home to 3,367 residents. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10.

Risk score
6
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 27% Stable renters 44% Owners 29%
Tract context
Occupied units1,387
Renter share70.7%
SVI overall0.86
Poverty rate48.3%
Median income$36,932

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 7 tracts In Little Arabia
Very High
Within parent city
39 th percentile
Rank, 39th percentileLowHigh
#98 of 159 tracts In Cleveland
Low
Within county
80 th percentile
Rank, 80th percentileLowHigh
#88 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 41.4600, -81.7634 · click any tract to drill in

Why Little Arabia 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
48.3% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$977 rent vs county FMR
3.1
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 Little Arabia compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Little Arabia risk score vs. parent city / county / state6.0This tracttract 1021014.6Clevelandparent city4.6Countyavg tract in county4.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 86

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. 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)

  • 916Total filings over 12 yrs
  • 9.71%Avg annual filing rate
  • 12.6%Peak (2013)
  • 64Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2004 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 39035102101
Filings climbed 25% over the past 12 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 356Total filings 2020-21
  • 4.6Avg monthly (observed)
  • 6.3Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.73×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

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

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Little Arabia. 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 Little Arabia

SNAP participation runs 39.5% against 15.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 48%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Food insecurity runs 39.7% against 17.8% nationally.

24% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. This is renter territory: 71% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10. Against the Cuyahoga County average of 4.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points.

On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10. Against Cuyahoga County at 43.0%, 38% of renters here are cost-burdened. The filing record is not thin: 916 evictions over 12 years of observation.

Filings peaked in 2013 at 12.6% of renter households. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Cleveland. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 9.7% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 78% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 39035102101

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39035102101?

Census tract 39035102101 in the Little Arabia 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 39035102101?

Median gross rent is $977/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 38% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 39035102101?

48.3% of residents in tract 39035102101 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,367.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 39035102101?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 86th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 95th, household 68th, minority 78th, housing 60th.
Q5

Is tract 39035102101 considered part of Little Arabia?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 39035102101 fall within Little Arabia (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 39035102101?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 916 eviction filings across 12 validated years in tract 39035102101 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 9.71% of renter households, peaking at 12.6% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 39035102101 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.73× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Cleveland eviction risk, OH), 2020-2021.
Q8

What share of households in tract 39035102101 struggle to pay rent?

About 28.2% 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. 23.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9

How does tract 39035102101 compare to Cleveland overall?

Tract 39035102101 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.
Q10

Was tract 39035102101 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 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

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

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