Mount Vernon Eviction Risk: Moderate , Columbus

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8/10. It sits 1.3 points above the Franklin County average of 4.4. The poverty rate is 23%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Against Franklin County at 41.6%, about half of renters here are cost-burdened. Housing insecurity runs 25.1% against 14.2% nationally.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.4/10. The severe-burden share is 12%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 19.3% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 546 filings here across 13 tracked years.

At $1,168 a month, rents run 10% under what the rest of Columbus commands. The worst year on record was 2004, when 14.5% of renter households were served.

This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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 12.1% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 74% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.