Within parent city
20
th percentile
Low
Census Tract · Ranked #52,479 of 84,120 nationally
Parma Heights Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 39035178101 · Cuyahoga County, OH · pop 2,757
39035178101 is a census tract in Parma Heights, OH. It scores 3.8/10 for landlords. The severe-burden share is 41%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Risk score
3.8
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 15%
Stable renters 10%
Owners 75%
Tract context
Occupied units1,268
Renter share24.7%
SVI overall0.57
Poverty rate8.5%
Median income$66,083
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
40
th percentile
Low
Within state
48
th percentile
Moderate
National
38
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Parma Heights and the region
Centroid at 41.3881, -81.7767 · click any tract to drill in
Why Parma Heights scores 3.8
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
8.5% poverty · this tract
2.1
Supply constraint
$919 rent vs county FMR
2.6
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: 57
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 42%Socioeconomic
- 68%Household composition
- 28%Racial/ethnic minority
- 74%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
- 4%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)
- 321Total filings over 12 yrs
- 5.48%Avg annual filing rate
- 9.1%Peak (2016)
- 37Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 16% 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.
- 9.1%Housing insecurity
- 6.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 11.3%Food insecurity
- 8.3%SNAP enrollment
- 6.2%Transit barriers
- 7.7%No health insurance
- 15.7%Frequent mental distress
- 29.6%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Parma Heights
Cost burden runs 61% here against 43.0% across Cuyahoga County. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 8.4/10. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10.
On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 2/10. Average gross rent is $919, 17% below the Parma Heights average.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 321 filings here across 12 tracked years. Against the Cuyahoga County average of 4.6, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.8 points. Filings peaked in 2016 at 9.1% of renter households.
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 5.5% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #52,479 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 25% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.
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.
Frequently asked
About tract 39035178101
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39035178101?
Census tract 39035178101 in Parma Heights scores 3.8/10 (Lower 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 39035178101?
Median gross rent is $919/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 61% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 39035178101?
8.5% of residents in tract 39035178101 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,757.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 39035178101?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 57th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 42th, household 68th, minority 28th, housing 74th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 39035178101?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 321 eviction filings across 12 validated years in tract 39035178101 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.48% of renter households, peaking at 9.1% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 39035178101 struggle to pay rent?
About 9.1% 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. 6.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 39035178101 compare to Parma Heights overall?
Tract 39035178101 scores 3.8/10, lower than 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 39035178101 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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