Stambaugh Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Youngstown

Food insecurity runs 42.6% against 17.8% nationally. The poverty rate is 48%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. The severe-burden share is 28%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Set annual rent against average income of $25,625 and the ratio lands at 37%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 27.2% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.6/10. On the high side, housing-court posture reads 8.6/10.

It sits 1.4 points above the Mahoning County average of 4.5. Court records carry 88 eviction filings across 7 observed years. Filings peaked in 2016 at 25.0% of renter households.

This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Youngstown. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.