Linden Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Dayton

Severe burden reaches 22%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 7.7/10. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.4/10.

The poverty rate is 19%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Court records carry 1,068 eviction filings across 17 observed years. It sits 0.8 points above the Montgomery County average of 4.2.

The worst year on record was 2015, when 8.3% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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. In a typical year about 6.8% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 61st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

41% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent. Average gross rent is $976, close to the Dayton average. Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $50,453.

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.