6 census tracts · pop 16,868 · pop-weighted Eviction Risk Score 5.7/10
· range 4.8–5.9
Pill Hill is a 6-tract neighborhood of Cincinnati, OH and houses 16,868 people. It carries an Eviction Risk Score of 5.7/10, in the Moderate tier. 53% of renters here are cost-burdened at the 30% threshold, dramatically above the Cincinnati rate of 30.1%.
34% are severely burdened, paying half their income or more in rent. That cohort has no absorption capacity for an unexpected bill, and it is where non-payment filings originate. The poverty rate is 43%, which shows up in this model as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. The strongest single driver of the headline number is economic stress at 9.1/10.
SNAP participation is 36.6% of households versus 15.2% nationally. This is a renter market: 75% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Annualized rent equals 35% of average household income here, past the 30% affordability line, which compresses the margin any screening standard has to work with.
Food insecurity affects 35.0% of adults, 17.2 points above the national rate. Running cool is rent-regulation exposure, at 2/10.
Scores across the 6 constituent tracts range from 4.8 to 5.9. A 1.1-point internal spread means block-level underwriting beats area-level here. Well under the midpoint is supply constraint, at 2.2/10. Court records carry 11,755 eviction filings across its 6 observed tracts.
Filing activity peaked in 2008 at 20.7% of renter households. The most recent observed rate, 9.7% in 2018, is well off that peak.
At $931 a month, rents sit 7% under what the rest of Cincinnati commands.
Underwrite the address, not the area: with 1.1 points between its best and worst tract, the per-tract table below is the operative number. The number is rebuilt whenever its ACS, court-record, or statutory inputs change.
Risk score
5.7
Moderate
6 tracts · population-weighted
Pill Hill vs CincinnatiHow this neighborhood stacks against the citywide average
Single-parent HH, disability, language barriers, age 17- / 65+
Racial/ethnic minority82%ile
Hispanic + non-white share of population
Housing & transport78%ile
Multi-unit structures, mobile homes, crowding, no vehicle
Eviction filings · Princeton Eviction Lab
Court-record eviction history in Pill Hill
Aggregated across 6 validated constituent tracts. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households, pop-weighted.
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
11,755Total filings (sum)
13.36%Avg annual filing rate
20.7%Peak year (2008)
11.15%Latest filed (2018)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
3,196Total filings 2020-21
8.4Avg monthly observed
9.5Pre-pandemic baseline
0.87×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Tracked under Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Cincinnati, OH).
CDC PLACES 2023 · pop-weighted
Eviction-adjacent indicators in Pill Hill
Average across all constituent tracts, population-weighted. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh) crude prevalence.
27.6%Housing insecurity
24.1%Utility shutoff threat
37.2%Food insecurity
39.6%SNAP enrollment
12.1%No health insurance
37.4%Any disability
Frequently asked
About Pill Hill
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for Pill Hill?
Pill Hill scores 5.7/10 (Moderate tier) across 6 census tracts. The pop-weighted Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income and poverty signals.
Q2
How does Pill Hill compare to Cincinnati overall?
Pill Hill scores 1.2 points higher than Cincinnati overall (4.5/10). Renters spend 53% of income on rent vs 30% citywide. Average rent: $931 vs $1,001.
Q3
What is the average rent in Pill Hill?
Average gross rent in Pill Hill is $931/month (pop-weighted across 6 census tracts, ACS 5-year 2023). 53% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q4
What percentage of Pill Hill residents are renters?
75% of Pill Hill households are renter-occupied (vs 60% in Cincinnati). The neighborhood has 16,868 residents.
Q5
Is Pill Hill a high social-vulnerability area?
Pill Hill sits in the 78th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index (highly vulnerable). The index combines poverty, unemployment, household composition, racial/ethnic minority share, and housing/transportation factors across all US census tracts.
Q6
Which tracts in Pill Hill have the highest eviction risk?
The highest-risk constituent tract in Pill Hill is census tract 39061006800 (score 5.9/10). Across the 6 tracts in this neighborhood the score ranges from 4.8 to 5.9, a spread of 1.1 points.
Q7
How safe is Pill Hill for landlords?
Pill Hill carries a moderate-tier eviction-risk profile for landlords (5.7/10). Pop-weighted across 6 constituent tracts, the score blends parent-city rent-control posture, county eviction-process timelines, and tract-specific rent-to-income / poverty signals. Compared to Cincinnati as a whole (4.5/10), this neighborhood is higher-risk.
Q8
What is the demographic breakdown of Pill Hill?
Pill Hill has 16,707 residents. Top groups: Black (non-Hispanic) (63.8%), White (non-Hispanic) (22.8%), Hispanic / Latino (5%). Source: ACS 5-year 2023, table B03002.
