Within parent city
13
th percentile
Very Low
Census Tract · Ranked #34,278 of 84,120 nationally
Garfield Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 39035154604 · Cuyahoga County, OH · pop 4,230
Census tract 39035154604 covers part of Garfield Heights, OH, and scores 4.9/10 on landlord eviction risk. Severe burden reaches 33%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
4.9
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 12%
Stable renters 14%
Owners 74%
Tract context
Occupied units1,471
Renter share25.8%
SVI overall0.41
Poverty rate18.6%
Median income$75,411
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
55
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
69
th percentile
Elevated
National
59
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Garfield Heights and the region
Centroid at 41.4041, -81.5905 · click any tract to drill in
Why Garfield Heights scores 4.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Garfield Heights
7.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.7
State political climate
Ohio legislature & governorship
2.4
Economic stress
18.6% poverty · this tract
4.7
Supply constraint
$1,297 rent vs county FMR
5.7
Rent control risk
Inherited from Garfield Heights
8.9
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Garfield Heights
8.4
Housing court bias
Inherited from Garfield Heights
8.5
How Garfield Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 41
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 48%Socioeconomic
- 64%Household composition
- 76%Racial/ethnic minority
- 12%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 78%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)
- 222Total filings over 12 yrs
- 8.05%Avg annual filing rate
- 12.9%Peak (2015)
- 30Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 650% over the past 12 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 17.6%Housing insecurity
- 13.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 20.5%Food insecurity
- 18.1%SNAP enrollment
- 10.8%Transit barriers
- 8.1%No health insurance
- 18.1%Frequent mental distress
- 30.7%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Garfield Heights
The score leans hardest on rent-regulation exposure at 8.9/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 8.5/10.
On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.4/10. The poverty rate is 19%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 222 filings here across 12 tracked years. Average gross rent is $1,297, 15% above the Garfield Heights average. The worst year on record was 2015, when 12.9% of renter households were served.
This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 8.0% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 59% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4.6/10.
Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. 46% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.
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 39035154604
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39035154604?
Census tract 39035154604 in Garfield Heights scores 4.9/10 (Moderate 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 39035154604?
Median gross rent is $1,297/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 46% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 39035154604?
18.6% of residents in tract 39035154604 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,230.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 39035154604?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 41th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 48th, household 64th, minority 76th, housing 12th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 39035154604?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 222 eviction filings across 12 validated years in tract 39035154604 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 8.05% of renter households, peaking at 12.9% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 39035154604 struggle to pay rent?
About 17.6% 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. 13.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 39035154604 compare to Garfield Heights overall?
Tract 39035154604 scores 4.9/10, higher than the parent city of Garfield Heights at 4.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Garfield Heights eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 39035154604 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 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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