Within parent city
100
th percentile
Very High
Census Tract · Ranked #65,414 of 84,120 nationally
Gahanna Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 39049007425 · Franklin County, OH · pop 2,523 · 94% of tract blocks fall in Gahanna
With a score of 3.1/10, tract 39049007425 in Gahanna, OH reads lower for landlord eviction risk. The severe-burden share is 23%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Risk score
3.1
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 15%
Stable renters 18%
Owners 67%
Tract context
Occupied units1,127
Renter share32.6%
SVI overall0.16
Poverty rate9.9%
Median income$101,473
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
30
th percentile
Low
Within state
33
th percentile
Low
National
22
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Gahanna and the region
Centroid at 40.0159, -82.8862 · click any tract to drill in
Why Gahanna scores 3.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Gahanna
6.9
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.6
State political climate
Ohio legislature & governorship
2.4
Economic stress
9.9% poverty · this tract
2.5
Supply constraint
$1,162 rent vs county FMR
3.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Gahanna
5.7
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.1
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Gahanna
6.6
Housing court bias
Inherited from Gahanna
4.5
How Gahanna compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 16
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 22%Socioeconomic
- 20%Household composition
- 30%Racial/ethnic minority
- 22%Housing & transportation
Eviction filings
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)
- 374Total filings over 13 yrs
- 7.42%Avg annual filing rate
- 15.7%Peak (2007)
- 21Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 50% over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 81Total filings 2020-21
- 1.1Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.6Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.66×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.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 9.2%Housing insecurity
- 6.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 10.8%Food insecurity
- 8.4%SNAP enrollment
- 6.4%Transit barriers
- 6.5%No health insurance
- 16.9%Frequent mental distress
- 25.0%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Gahanna
The dominant input is court filing pressure at 8/10. Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.1/10. It sits 1.3 points below the Franklin County average of 4.4.
At $1,162 a month, rents run 21% under what the rest of Gahanna commands. Running cool, state political climate reads 2.4/10.
The filing record is not thin: 374 evictions over 13 years of observation. 46% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Franklin County average of 41.6%.
Food insecurity runs 10.8% against 17.8% nationally. Filings peaked in 2007 at 15.7% of renter households. In a typical year about 7.4% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 22% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
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.
Frequently asked
About tract 39049007425
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39049007425?
Census tract 39049007425 in Gahanna scores 3.1/10 (Lower tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 39049007425?
Median gross rent is $1,162/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 46% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 39049007425?
9.9% of residents in tract 39049007425 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,523.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 39049007425?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 16th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 22th, household 20th, minority 30th, housing 22th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 39049007425?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 374 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 39049007425 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 7.42% of renter households, peaking at 15.7% in 2007. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 39049007425 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.66× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings dropped sharply, likely a moratorium effect. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Columbus eviction risk, OH), 2020-2021.
Q7
What share of households in tract 39049007425 struggle to pay rent?
About 9.2% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 6.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 39049007425 compare to Gahanna overall?
Tract 39049007425 scores 3.1/10, lower than the parent city of Gahanna at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Gahanna eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Gahanna
Top eight tracts in Gahanna ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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