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

Little Italy Eviction Risk: Elevated , Cleveland

Tract 39035118800 · Cuyahoga County, OH · pop 2,769 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi

Census tract 39035118800 covers part of the Little Italy area of Cleveland, OH, and scores 6/10 on landlord eviction risk. Severe burden reaches 45%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
6
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 48% Stable renters 36% Owners 16%
Tract context
Occupied units1,560
Renter share84.3%
SVI overall0.45
Poverty rate41.9%
Median income$23,472

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Little Italy
Moderate
Within parent city
31 th percentile
Rank, 31st percentileLowHigh
#110 of 159 tracts In Cleveland
Low
Within county
93 th percentile
Rank, 93rd percentileLowHigh
#33 of 427 tracts In Cuyahoga County
Very 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 41.5111, -81.5984 · click any tract to drill in

Why Little Italy 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
41.9% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$1,124 rent vs county FMR
4.3
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 Italy compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Little Italy risk score vs. parent city / county / state6.0This tracttract 1188004.6Clevelandparent city4.6Countyavg tract in county4.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 45

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

Historic baseline (2000–2018)

  • 140Total filings over 12 yrs
  • 0.75%Avg annual filing rate
  • 1.4%Peak (2005)
  • 5Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2004 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 39035118800
Filings dropped 29% over the past 12 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 43Total filings 2020-21
  • 0.6Avg monthly (observed)
  • 0.5Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 1.10×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran near baseline. 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 Little Italy

Set annual rent against average income of $23,472 and the ratio lands at 57%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10. The poverty rate is 42%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Cost burden runs 57% here against 43.0% across Cuyahoga County. 84% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10. It sits 1.4 points above the Cuyahoga County average of 4.6.

Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10. Average gross rent is $1,124, 19% above the Cleveland average. Court records carry 140 eviction filings across 12 observed years.

The worst year on record was 2005, when 1.4% of renter households were served. 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.

In a typical year about 0.7% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 78% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.

Frequently asked

About tract 39035118800

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39035118800?

Census tract 39035118800 in the Little Italy 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 39035118800?

Median gross rent is $1,124/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 57% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 39035118800?

41.9% of residents in tract 39035118800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,769.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 39035118800?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 45th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 73th, household 1th, minority 60th, housing 72th.
Q5

Is tract 39035118800 considered part of Little Italy?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 39035118800 fall within Little Italy (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 39035118800?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 140 eviction filings across 12 validated years in tract 39035118800 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 0.75% of renter households, peaking at 1.4% in 2005. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 39035118800 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 1.10× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings returned near baseline. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Cleveland eviction risk, OH), 2020-2021.
Q8

What share of households in tract 39035118800 struggle to pay rent?

About 13.7% 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. 10.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9

How does tract 39035118800 compare to Cleveland overall?

Tract 39035118800 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 39035118800 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. 63% 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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