Westerville Eviction Risk: Lower

Severe burden reaches 20%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8/10.

Against the Franklin County average of 4.4, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.4 points. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.1/10.

SNAP participation runs 3.9% against 15.2% nationally. Housing insecurity runs 5.3% against 14.2% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 130 evictions over 13 years of observation.

The worst year on record was 2011, when 4.2% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 3.2% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Only 15% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the OH average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.2 points cooler. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.

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