Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #18,163 of 84,120 nationally
Riverside Park Eviction Risk: Elevated , Cleveland
Tract 39035123602 · Cuyahoga County, OH · pop 3,093 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi
Census tract 39035123602 covers part of the Riverside Park area of Cleveland, OH, and scores 6/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,093 residents. 39% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Risk score
6
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 28%
Stable renters 17%
Owners 55%
Tract context
Occupied units1,459
Renter share45.2%
SVI overall0.84
Poverty rate39.3%
Median income$47,005
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
34
th percentile
Low
Within county
95
th percentile
Very High
Within state
99
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Cleveland and the region
Centroid at 41.4407, -81.8302 · click any tract to drill in
Why Riverside Park scores 6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal 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
39.3% poverty · this tract
9.8
Supply constraint
$739 rent vs county FMR
1.1
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 Riverside Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 84
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 85%Socioeconomic
- 59%Household composition
- 54%Racial/ethnic minority
- 87%Housing & transportation
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.
- 9%Grade A
- 13%Grade B
- 10%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
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)
- 262Total filings over 12 yrs
- 3.76%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.8%Peak (2007)
- 7Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 75% over the past 12 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 48Total filings 2020-21
- 0.6Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.9Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.71×Ratio to 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 Riverside Park. 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.
- 14.9%Housing insecurity
- 12.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 21.3%Food insecurity
- 20.1%SNAP enrollment
- 10.7%Transit barriers
- 10.4%No health insurance
- 17.6%Frequent mental distress
- 36.9%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Riverside Park
Cost burden runs 63% here against 43.0% across Cuyahoga County. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 9.8/10. The poverty rate is 39%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.1/10. 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. Average gross rent is $739, 22% below the Cleveland average.
The filing record is not thin: 262 evictions over 12 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2007 at 5.8% 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 3.8% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 78% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 39035123602
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39035123602?
Census tract 39035123602 in the Riverside Park 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 39035123602?
Median gross rent is $739/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 63% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 39035123602?
39.3% of residents in tract 39035123602 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,093.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 39035123602?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 84th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 85th, household 59th, minority 54th, housing 87th.
Q5
Is tract 39035123602 considered part of Riverside Park?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 39035123602 fall within Riverside Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.9 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 39035123602?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 262 eviction filings across 12 validated years in tract 39035123602 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.76% of renter households, peaking at 5.8% in 2007. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 39035123602 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.71× 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 39035123602 struggle to pay rent?
About 14.9% 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. 12.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 39035123602 compare to Cleveland overall?
Tract 39035123602 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 39035123602 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.
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