South End Eviction Risk: Lower , Steubenville

On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.4/10. Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.6/10. Against Jefferson County at 39.7%, around a third of renters here are cost-burdened.

Against the Jefferson County average of 3.9, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.9 points. The filing record is not thin: 33 evictions over 2 years of observation. The severe-burden share is 8%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Filings peaked in 2016 at 4.6% of renter households. In a typical year about 3.8% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

At 24% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Social vulnerability reads 3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Rent consumes only 15% of average household income of $58,355, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the OH average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.2 points cooler. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

Average gross rent is $717, close to the Toronto average.

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.