Stambaugh Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Youngstown

The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10. SNAP participation runs 55.1% against 15.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 55%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Severe burden reaches 32%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Annualized rent equals 37% of average household income of $21,642, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.6/10. Disability prevalence runs 47.5% against 31.5% nationally. On the high side, housing-court posture reads 8.6/10.

Against the Mahoning County average of 4.5, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points. Court records carry 407 eviction filings across 7 observed years. At $662 a month, rents run 9% under what the rest of Youngstown commands.

The worst year on record was 2009, when 10.7% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

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