Reading Eviction Risk: Moderate

20% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.3/10. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 2/10.

Against Hamilton County at 42.5%, roughly one in three of renters here are cost-burdened. The poverty rate is 20%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Court records carry 1,204 eviction filings across 16 observed years.

Against the Hamilton County average of 4.4, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.8 points. Filings peaked in 2012 at 26.3% of renter households.

In a typical year about 13.2% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #29,336 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the OH average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.0 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

Average gross rent is $954, close to the Reading average.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.