Garfield Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated

Running hot, housing-court posture reads 8.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.4/10.

The poverty rate is 25%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Against the Cuyahoga County average of 4.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points.

50% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Cuyahoga County average of 43.0%. 15% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Court records carry 819 eviction filings across 12 observed years. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.0% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Filings peaked in 2015 at 25.8% of renter households.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 21.1% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #18,163 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

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.