Gratiot Eviction Risk: Lower

On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.9/10. Severe burden reaches 16%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2/10.

Against the Muskingum County average of 4.2, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.2 points. Court records carry 69 eviction filings across 9 observed years.

Against Muskingum County at 41.4%, 37% of renters here are cost-burdened. Food insecurity runs 10.3% against 17.8% nationally. The worst year on record was 2015, when 4.2% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 2.7% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Only 10% 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 2.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 10% of average household income of $83,604, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the OH average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.2 points cooler.

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