Gulf Road Heights Eviction Risk: Lower

The main counterweight is economic stress, at 1.2/10. Sitting well above the midpoint is tenant-organizing strength at 8.1/10.

On the softer side is eviction-process difficulty, at 2.4/10. Court records carry 767 eviction filings across its 2 observed tracts.

The worst year on record was 2014, when filings touched 10.9% of renter households. Average gross rent is $980, 8% above the Elyria average of $906. The most recent observed rate, 4.7% in 2018, is well off that peak.

Among the 7 mapped neighborhoods of Elyria, it ranks #8 by risk, the lower third. Only 22% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin here; price renewals off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. For a like-for-like read, Eastern Heights and Washington Avenue Historic District score within a fraction of it.

Rent takes 16% of average household income, comfortably inside the 30% line and unusually low for a rental sub-market. Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually reflect a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

The 2 tracts here are tightly clustered, 0.1 points apart at the extremes.

With little internal variation, 3.3/10 is a fair proxy for any address inside the boundary. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.