Forest Hill Historic District Eviction Risk: Elevated , Cleveland Heights

Average gross rent is $296, 62% below the East Cleveland average. Against the Cuyahoga County average of 4.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.8 points.

Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.8/10. The poverty rate is 42%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

29% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Disability prevalence runs 50.8% against 31.5% nationally.

On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10. 70% 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. Food insecurity runs 33.8% against 17.8% nationally.

Court records carry 518 eviction filings across 12 observed years. Filings peaked in 2007 at 10.4% of renter households.

This ground was mapped A ("Best") 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 4.9% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 87th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

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.