Within parent city
60
th percentile
Elevated
Census Tract · Ranked #44,239 of 84,120 nationally
Parma Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 39035178206 · Cuyahoga County, OH · pop 2,903
Census tract 39035178206 covers part of Parma Heights, OH, and scores 4.3/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,903 residents. 55% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Risk score
4.3
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 18%
Stable renters 10%
Owners 72%
Tract context
Occupied units1,288
Renter share27.2%
SVI overall0.33
Poverty rate13.2%
Median income$67,500
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
46
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
59
th percentile
Elevated
National
47
th percentile
Moderate
Geographic context
Risk heat across Parma Heights and the region
Centroid at 41.3753, -81.7726 · click any tract to drill in
Why Parma Heights scores 4.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Parma Heights
7.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.7
State political climate
Ohio legislature & governorship
2.4
Economic stress
13.2% poverty · this tract
3.3
Supply constraint
$1,364 rent vs county FMR
6.3
Rent control risk
Inherited from Parma Heights
7.8
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Parma Heights
8.4
Housing court bias
Inherited from Parma Heights
7.4
How Parma Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 33
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 37%Socioeconomic
- 46%Household composition
- 33%Racial/ethnic minority
- 28%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
- 62%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)
- 91Total filings over 12 yrs
- 5.23%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.9%Peak (2012)
- 6Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 20% 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.
- 11.0%Housing insecurity
- 8.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 14.3%Food insecurity
- 11.9%SNAP enrollment
- 7.6%Transit barriers
- 8.7%No health insurance
- 17.2%Frequent mental distress
- 32.2%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Parma Heights
Cost burden runs 65% here against 43.0% across Cuyahoga County. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 8.4/10. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10.
At $1,364 a month, rents run 23% over what the rest of Parma Heights commands. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 2/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 91 filings here across 12 tracked years.
The voucher gap is 12.9%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. The worst year on record was 2012, when 6.9% 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 5.2% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 47% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 39035178206
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39035178206?
Census tract 39035178206 in Parma Heights scores 4.3/10 (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 39035178206?
Median gross rent is $1,364/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 65% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 39035178206?
13.2% of residents in tract 39035178206 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,903.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 39035178206?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 33th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 37th, household 46th, minority 33th, housing 28th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 39035178206?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 91 eviction filings across 12 validated years in tract 39035178206 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.23% of renter households, peaking at 6.9% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 39035178206 struggle to pay rent?
About 11.0% 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. 8.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 39035178206 compare to Parma Heights overall?
Tract 39035178206 scores 4.3/10, right in line with the parent city of Parma Heights at 4.3/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Parma eviction risk Heights; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 39035178206 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.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Parma Heights
Top eight tracts in Parma Heights ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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