Melrose Eviction Risk: Lower , Pickerington

The clearest offset is economic stress at 1/10. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.3/10.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.4/10. The severe-burden share is 10%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. It sits 1.0 points below the Fairfield County average of 4.0.

Food insecurity runs 9.5% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 7.1% against 15.2% nationally. That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Social vulnerability reads 6.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the OH average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.2 points cooler. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

Poverty sits at 2%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. Average gross rent is $1,613, close to the Pickerington average.

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.