Westlake Eviction Risk: Lower

20% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10. It sits 1.6 points below the Cuyahoga County average of 4.6.

The voucher gap is 22.5%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.9/10.

SNAP participation runs 5.2% against 15.2% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 92 filings here across 12 tracked years.

Housing insecurity runs 6.4% against 14.2% nationally. Filings peaked in 2009 at 7.3% of renter households. 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 3.7% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Only 15% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. Social vulnerability reads 2.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Against average income of $105,383, annual rent is just 17%.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.