Iuka Ravine Eviction Risk: Moderate , Columbus

Against Franklin County at 41.6%, 60% of renters here are cost-burdened. The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10.

The poverty rate is 64%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. 99% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.

Annualized rent equals 44% of average household income of $34,909, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8/10. Food insecurity runs 30.3% against 17.8% nationally.

It sits 1.3 points above the Franklin County average of 4.4. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 405 filings here across 13 tracked years.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 14.6% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Filings peaked in 2003 at 3.4% of renter households. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Columbus. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

In a typical year about 2.5% of renter households face a filing.

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.