Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Berlin Heights Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 39043040300 · Erie County, OH · pop 5,816 · 7% of tract blocks fall in Berlin Heights
Tract 39043040300 sits in Berlin Heights, OH, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3/10. It is home to 5,816 residents. Against Erie County at 37.2%, 25% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 4%
Stable renters 11%
Owners 85%
Tract context
Occupied units2,524
Renter share15.2%
SVI overall0.25
Poverty rate10.9%
Median income$87,000
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
11
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
31
th percentile
Low
National
20
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Berlin Heights and the region
Centroid at 41.3266, -82.4474 · click any tract to drill in
Why Berlin Heights scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Berlin Heights
5.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.4
State political climate
Ohio legislature & governorship
2.4
Economic stress
10.9% poverty · this tract
2.7
Supply constraint
$883 rent vs county FMR
3.8
Rent control risk
Inherited from Berlin Heights
2.3
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.6
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Berlin Heights
6.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Berlin Heights
4.5
How Berlin Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 25
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 28%Socioeconomic
- 29%Household composition
- 21%Racial/ethnic minority
- 36%Housing & transportation
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)
- 30Total filings over 7 yrs
- 1.24%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.1%Peak (2016)
- 3Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 7 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.
- 8.6%Housing insecurity
- 6.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 10.2%Food insecurity
- 7.8%SNAP enrollment
- 5.9%Transit barriers
- 6.6%No health insurance
- 16.4%Frequent mental distress
- 28.1%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Berlin Heights
What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 7.8/10. The severe-burden share is 16%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 2.3/10.
It sits 1.2 points below the Erie County average of 4.2. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.4/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 30 filings here across 7 tracked years.
Food insecurity runs 10.2% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 7.8% against 15.2% nationally. Filings peaked in 2016 at 2.1% of renter households.
Average gross rent is $883, 8% below the Berlin Heights average. In a typical year about 1.2% 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. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 12% of average household income of $87,000, an unusually wide affordability cushion.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 39043040300
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39043040300?
Census tract 39043040300 in Berlin Heights 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 39043040300?
Median gross rent is $883/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 25% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 39043040300?
10.9% of residents in tract 39043040300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,816.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 39043040300?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 25th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 28th, household 29th, minority 21th, housing 36th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 39043040300?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 30 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 39043040300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.24% of renter households, peaking at 2.1% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 39043040300 struggle to pay rent?
About 8.6% 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. 6.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 39043040300 compare to Berlin Heights overall?
Tract 39043040300 scores 3/10, lower than the parent city of Berlin Heights at 3.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Berlin Heights; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
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