Thurman Square Eviction Risk: Moderate , Columbus
Tract 39049005900 · Franklin County, OH · pop 2,683 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
Tract 39049005900 sits in the Thurman Square area of Columbus eviction risk, OH, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.7/10. It is home to 2,683 residents. Against Franklin County at 41.6%, 62% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Columbus and the region
Centroid at 39.9391, -82.9688 · click any tract to drill in
Why Thurman Square scores 5.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Thurman Square compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 75
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 89%Socioeconomic
- 72%Household composition
- 81%Racial/ethnic minority
- 29%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 100%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
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.
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
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 1,293Total filings over 13 yrs
- 19.33%Avg annual filing rate
- 26.3%Peak (2013)
- 109Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 376Total filings 2020-21
- 4.9Avg monthly (observed)
- 8.9Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.55×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Columbus, OH as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Thurman Square. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 23.8%Housing insecurity
- 20.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 31.3%Food insecurity
- 30.9%SNAP enrollment
- 16.2%Transit barriers
- 11.3%No health insurance
- 21.7%Frequent mental distress
- 34.6%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Thurman Square
The severe-burden share is 33%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10.
The poverty rate is 28%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8/10. Against the Franklin County average of 4.4, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points.
Inability to pay a utility bill runs 20.1% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Running cool, state political climate reads 2.4/10. Housing insecurity runs 23.8% against 14.2% nationally.
Court records carry 1,293 eviction filings across 13 observed years. The worst year on record was 2013, when 26.3% of renter households were served. 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.
In a typical year about 19.3% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #21,564 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
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.
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