Natural Resources Park District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Columbus

Severe burden reaches 31%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 30.4% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Housing insecurity runs 35.0% against 14.2% nationally.

Annualized rent equals 40% of average household income of $32,243, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10. The poverty rate is 33%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 8.3/10. 67% 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. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8/10.

Against the Franklin County average of 4.4, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points. Average gross rent is $1,063, 18% below the Columbus 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.