Within parent city
100
th percentile
Very High
Census Tract · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Rocky River Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 39035181201 · Cuyahoga County, OH · pop 6,368
Census tract 39035181201 covers part of Rocky River, OH, and scores 3/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 6,368 residents. Against Cuyahoga County at 43.0%, roughly one in three of renters here are cost-burdened.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 7%
Stable renters 16%
Owners 77%
Tract context
Occupied units2,771
Renter share22.8%
SVI overall0.60
Poverty rate6.7%
Median income$95,406
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
8
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
31
th percentile
Low
National
20
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Rocky River and the region
Centroid at 41.4618, -81.8644 · click any tract to drill in
Why Rocky River scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Rocky River
7.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.7
State political climate
Ohio legislature & governorship
2.4
Economic stress
6.7% poverty · this tract
1.7
Supply constraint
$843 rent vs county FMR
2.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Rocky River
3.9
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.4
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Rocky River
6.3
Housing court bias
Inherited from Rocky River
3.5
How Rocky River compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 60
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 12%Socioeconomic
- 95%Household composition
- 20%Racial/ethnic minority
- 93%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 6%Grade B
- 0%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)
- 194Total filings over 12 yrs
- 2.28%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.9%Peak (2011)
- 20Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat 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.
- 6.2%Housing insecurity
- 4.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 7.5%Food insecurity
- 5.4%SNAP enrollment
- 4.5%Transit barriers
- 5.1%No health insurance
- 12.8%Frequent mental distress
- 26.4%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Rocky River
The main counterweight is economic stress at 1.7/10. Average gross rent is $843, 28% below the Rocky River average.
Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10. Against the Cuyahoga County average of 4.6, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.6 points.
Running cool, supply constraint reads 2/10. Severe burden reaches 11%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
SNAP participation runs 5.4% against 15.2% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 194 filings here across 12 tracked years.
Housing insecurity runs 6.2% against 14.2% nationally. The worst year on record was 2011, when 2.9% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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 2.3% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 39035181201
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39035181201?
Census tract 39035181201 in Rocky River scores 3/10 (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 39035181201?
Median gross rent is $843/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 31% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 39035181201?
6.7% of residents in tract 39035181201 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,368.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 39035181201?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 60th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 12th, household 95th, minority 20th, housing 93th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 39035181201?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 194 eviction filings across 12 validated years in tract 39035181201 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.28% of renter households, peaking at 2.9% in 2011. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 39035181201 struggle to pay rent?
About 6.2% 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. 4.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 39035181201 compare to Rocky River overall?
Tract 39035181201 scores 3/10, lower than the parent city of Rocky River at 3.7/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Rocky River; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 39035181201 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 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 Rocky River
Top eight tracts in Rocky River ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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