Bethlehem Eviction Risk: Moderate , Cincinnati

Cost burden runs 75% here against 42.5% across Hamilton County. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10. The poverty rate is 56%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

This is renter territory: 90% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Set annual rent against average income of $40,343 and the ratio lands at 35%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

Food insecurity runs 33.7% against 17.8% nationally. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.3/10.

It sits 1.5 points above the Hamilton County average of 4.4. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10. Average gross rent is $1,188, 19% above the Cincinnati average.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 19.2% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The filing record is not thin: 623 evictions over 16 years of observation.

Filings peaked in 2002 at 6.8% of renter households.

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.