Southern Orchards Eviction Risk: Moderate , Columbus

Severe burden reaches 19%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8/10. roughly one in two of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Franklin County average of 41.6%.

Running cool, state political climate reads 2.4/10. The filing record is not thin: 954 evictions over 13 years of observation. At $1,147 a month, rents run 11% under what the rest of Columbus commands.

Filings peaked in 2003 at 18.0% of renter households. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 16.1% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #45,786 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. It tracks the Franklin County average of 4.4 closely.

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