Pataskala Eviction Risk: Lower

Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.1/10. Average gross rent is $1,076, 22% below the Pataskala average. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.4/10.

10% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. It sits 0.9 points below the Licking County average of 3.9. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 230 filings here across 12 tracked years.

SNAP participation runs 7.7% against 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity runs 10.3% against 17.8% nationally. The worst year on record was 2015, when 6.9% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 4.5% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 21% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 14% of average household income of $91,198, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

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