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Neighborhood · Ranked #21,564 of 84,120 nationally

Indianola Terrace Eviction Risk: Moderate , Columbus

Tract 39049001301 · Franklin County, OH · pop 3,128 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi

39049001301 is a census tract in the Indianola Terrace area of Columbus, OH. It scores 5.7/10 for landlords. Population here is 3,128. 61% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Franklin County average of 41.6%.

Risk score
5.7
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 55% Stable renters 35% Owners 10%
Tract context
Occupied units1,082
Renter share90.1%
SVI overall0.42
Poverty rate44.0%
Median income$47,500

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 2 tracts In Indianola Terrace
Very High
Within parent city
70 th percentile
Rank, 70th percentileLowHigh
#73 of 238 tracts In Columbus
Elevated
Within county
80 th percentile
Rank, 80th percentileLowHigh
#65 of 328 tracts In Franklin County
High
Within state
89 th percentile
Rank, 89th percentileLowHigh
#353 of 3,162 tracts In Ohio
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Columbus and the region

Centroid at 39.9977, -82.9987 · click any tract to drill in

Why Indianola Terrace scores 5.7

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Columbus
6.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.6
State political climate
Ohio legislature & governorship
2.4
Economic stress
44.0% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$1,195 rent vs county FMR
3.3
Rent control risk
Inherited from Columbus
1.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
4.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Columbus
5.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Columbus
4.0

How Indianola Terrace compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Indianola Terrace risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.7This tracttract 0013014.3Columbusparent city4.4Countyavg tract in county4.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 42

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

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.

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

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 134Total filings 2020-21
  • 1.7Avg monthly (observed)
  • 1.8Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.94×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Columbus, OH as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Indianola Terrace. 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Indianola Terrace

The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10. Severe burden reaches 34%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The poverty rate is 44%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

This is renter territory: 90% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8/10.

It sits 1.3 points above the Franklin County average of 4.4. 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.

Nationally it ranks #21,564 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 4.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the OH average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

Average gross rent is $1,195, close to the Columbus average. Annual rent works out to 30% of average household income of $47,500.

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 39049001301

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39049001301?

Census tract 39049001301 in the Indianola Terrace neighborhood scores 5.7/10 (Moderate 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 39049001301?

Median gross rent is $1,195/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 61% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 39049001301?

44.0% of residents in tract 39049001301 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,128.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 39049001301?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 42th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 81th, household 1th, minority 35th, housing 55th.
Q5

Is tract 39049001301 considered part of Indianola Terrace?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 39049001301 fall within Indianola Terrace (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 39049001301 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.94× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Columbus eviction risk, OH), 2020-2021.
Q7

What share of households in tract 39049001301 struggle to pay rent?

About 14.2% 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. 11.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 39049001301 compare to Columbus overall?

Tract 39049001301 scores 5.7/10, higher than the parent city of Columbus at 4.3/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Columbus eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9

Was tract 39049001301 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 Columbus

Top eight tracts in Columbus ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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