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Neighborhood · Ranked #22,681 of 84,120 nationally

Downtown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Marion

Tract 39101000900 · Marion County, OH · pop 4,231 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi

Tract 39101000900 sits in the Downtown area of Marion eviction risk, OH, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.6/10. Severe burden reaches 37%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
5.6
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 40% Stable renters 23% Owners 37%
Tract context
Occupied units1,531
Renter share63.4%
SVI overall0.87
Poverty rate37.6%
Median income$32,042

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
43 th percentile
Rank, 43rd percentileLowHigh
#5 of 8 tracts In Downtown
Moderate
Within parent city
92 th percentile
Rank, 92nd percentileLowHigh
#2 of 14 tracts In Marion
Very High
Within county
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 18 tracts In Marion County
Very High
Within state
85 th percentile
Rank, 85th percentileLowHigh
#466 of 3,162 tracts In Ohio
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Marion and the region

Centroid at 40.6014, -83.1234 · click any tract to drill in

Why Downtown scores 5.6

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Marion
3.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
3.1
State political climate
Ohio legislature & governorship
2.4
Economic stress
37.6% poverty · this tract
9.4
Supply constraint
$878 rent vs county FMR
4.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Marion
6.6
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Marion
8.6
Housing court bias
Inherited from Marion
7.4

How Downtown compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Downtown risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.6This tracttract 0009004.2Marionparent city4.4Countyavg tract in county4.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 87

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)

  • 602Total filings over 7 yrs
  • 9.58%Avg annual filing rate
  • 11.4%Peak (2015)
  • 84Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2002 to 2018
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 39101000900
Filings climbed 45% over the past 7 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Downtown. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

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 Downtown

63% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, far above the Marion County average of 40.0%. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 9.4/10.

The poverty rate is 38%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.6/10. Set annual rent against average income of $32,042 and the ratio lands at 33%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

Food insecurity runs 33.3% against 17.8% nationally. Disability prevalence runs 45.4% against 31.5% nationally. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10.

It sits 1.2 points above the Marion County average of 4.4. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 602 filings here across 7 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2015, when 11.4% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 9.6% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #22,681 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 39101000900

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39101000900?

Census tract 39101000900 in the Downtown neighborhood scores 5.6/10 (Moderate 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 39101000900?

Median gross rent is $878/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 63% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 39101000900?

37.6% of residents in tract 39101000900 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,231.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 39101000900?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 87th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 96th, household 83th, minority 39th, housing 65th.
Q5

Is tract 39101000900 considered part of Downtown?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 39101000900 fall within Downtown (neighborhood centroid within 0.9 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 39101000900?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 602 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 39101000900 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 9.58% of renter households, peaking at 11.4% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 39101000900 struggle to pay rent?

About 22.3% 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. 18.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 39101000900 compare to Marion overall?

Tract 39101000900 scores 5.6/10, higher than the parent city of Marion at 4.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Marion eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Marion

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

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