Garfield Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate

58% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Cuyahoga County average of 43.0%. The dominant input is rent-regulation exposure at 8.9/10.

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

Court records carry 527 eviction filings across 12 observed years. SNAP participation runs 23.3% against 15.2% nationally.

Food insecurity runs 25.3% against 17.8% nationally. At $1,024 a month, rents run 9% under what the rest of Garfield Heights commands. The worst year on record was 2013, when 16.1% of renter households were served.

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 8.5% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #34,278 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.