Westerville Eviction Risk: Lower

Average gross rent is $1,794, 32% above the Westerville average. 19% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

The voucher gap is 24.2%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.1/10. Food insecurity runs 5.8% against 17.8% nationally.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.4/10. Housing insecurity runs 5.4% against 14.2% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 49 evictions over 9 years of observation.

Filings peaked in 2012 at 3.8% of renter households. In a typical year about 2.3% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 27% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

At 18% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.3/10.

Against average income of $141,322, annual rent is just 15%.

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