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Port West Eviction Risk: Lower , Avon Lake

Tract 39093010400 · Lorain County, OH · pop 4,217 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi

Tract 39093010400 sits in the Port West area of Avon Lake eviction risk, OH, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3/10. Population here is 4,217. The clearest offset is economic stress at 1.9/10.

Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 15% Stable renters 30% Owners 55%
Tract context
Occupied units2,228
Renter share45.5%
SVI overall0.24
Poverty rate7.4%
Median income$90,778

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Port West
Moderate
Within parent city
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 5 tracts In Avon Lake
Very High
Within county
24 th percentile
Rank, 24th percentileLowHigh
#60 of 79 tracts In Lorain County
Low
Within state
31 th percentile
Rank, 31st percentileLowHigh
#2,197 of 3,162 tracts In Ohio
Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across Avon Lake and the region

Centroid at 41.4892, -82.0480 · click any tract to drill in

Why Port West scores 3

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Avon Lake
5.4
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.9
State political climate
Ohio legislature & governorship
2.4
Economic stress
7.4% poverty · this tract
1.9
Supply constraint
$1,380 rent vs county FMR
6.4
Rent control risk
Inherited from Avon Lake
3.9
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.4
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Avon Lake
4.2
Housing court bias
Inherited from Avon Lake
3.3

How Port West compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Port West risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.0This tracttract 0104003.4Avon Lakeparent city4.1Countyavg tract in county4.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 24

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Eviction filings

Court-record eviction history

Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1

Historic baseline (2000–2018)

  • 160Total filings over 11 yrs
  • 3.00%Avg annual filing rate
  • 6.8%Peak (2006)
  • 15Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2002 to 2018
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 39093010400
Filings climbed 400% over the past 11 months.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress

Eviction-adjacent indicators

Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Port West

Running cool, state political climate reads 2.4/10. Cost burden runs 34% here against 40.1% across Lorain County.

Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.4/10. It sits 1.1 points below the Lorain County average of 4.1.

The filing record is not thin: 160 evictions over 11 years of observation. Food insecurity runs 9.7% against 17.8% nationally. The voucher gap is 14.2%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

SNAP participation runs 7.5% against 15.2% nationally. Average gross rent is $1,380, 10% below the Avon Lake average. The worst year on record was 2006, when 6.8% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 3.0% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 3.1/10.

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 39093010400

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39093010400?

Census tract 39093010400 in the Port West neighborhood scores 3/10 (Lower tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 39093010400?

Median gross rent is $1,380/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 34% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 39093010400?

7.4% of residents in tract 39093010400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,217.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 39093010400?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 24th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 27th, household 26th, minority 23th, housing 36th.
Q5

Is tract 39093010400 considered part of Port West?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 39093010400 fall within Port West (neighborhood centroid within 0.9 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 39093010400?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 160 eviction filings across 11 validated years in tract 39093010400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.00% of renter households, peaking at 6.8% in 2006. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 39093010400 struggle to pay rent?

About 8.2% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 6.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 39093010400 compare to Avon Lake overall?

Tract 39093010400 scores 3/10, lower than the parent city of Avon Lake at 3.4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Avon Lake eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Avon Lake

Top eight tracts in Avon Lake ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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