Gardner Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated , Euclid

Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10. The severe-burden share is 19%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Against the Cuyahoga County average of 4.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points. The poverty rate is 24%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Food insecurity runs 28.5% against 17.8% nationally. Running cool, state political climate reads 2.4/10.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 17.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 326 filings here across 12 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2016, when 7.3% 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 6.4% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #18,163 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the OH average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.8 points hotter.

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.