Within parent city
68
th percentile
Elevated
Census Tract · Ranked #50,654 of 84,120 nationally
Kettering Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 39113021301 · Montgomery County, OH · pop 2,890
Census tract 39113021301 covers part of Kettering, OH, and scores 3.9/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,890 residents. 47% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Risk score
3.9
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 14%
Stable renters 11%
Owners 75%
Tract context
Occupied units1,147
Renter share25.5%
SVI overall0.44
Poverty rate10.7%
Median income$60,571
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
45
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
51
th percentile
Moderate
National
40
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Kettering and the region
Centroid at 39.7250, -84.1155 · click any tract to drill in
Why Kettering scores 3.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Kettering
5.6
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.1
State political climate
Ohio legislature & governorship
2.4
Economic stress
10.7% poverty · this tract
2.7
Supply constraint
$1,091 rent vs county FMR
5.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from Kettering
5.1
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.1
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Kettering
7.4
Housing court bias
Inherited from Kettering
4.9
How Kettering compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 44
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 54%Socioeconomic
- 45%Household composition
- 2%Racial/ethnic minority
- 49%Housing & transportation
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)
- 165Total filings over 17 yrs
- 3.55%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.5%Peak (2007)
- 2Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 75% over the past 17 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 11.8%Housing insecurity
- 8.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 14.4%Food insecurity
- 12.9%SNAP enrollment
- 8.3%Transit barriers
- 8.3%No health insurance
- 19.6%Frequent mental distress
- 31.4%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Kettering
Cost burden runs 57% here against 42.9% across Montgomery County. The clearest offset is eviction-process difficulty at 2.1/10. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 7.7/10.
On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.4/10. Court records carry 165 eviction filings across 17 observed years. The worst year on record was 2007, when 5.5% of renter households were served.
In a typical year about 3.6% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 40th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
It tracks the Montgomery County average of 4.2 closely. Average gross rent is $1,091, close to the Kettering average.
Annual rent works out to 22% of average household income of $60,571. 25% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
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.
Frequently asked
About tract 39113021301
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39113021301?
Census tract 39113021301 in Kettering scores 3.9/10 (Lower 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 39113021301?
Median gross rent is $1,091/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 57% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 39113021301?
10.7% of residents in tract 39113021301 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,890.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 39113021301?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 44th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 54th, household 45th, minority 2th, housing 49th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 39113021301?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 165 eviction filings across 17 validated years in tract 39113021301 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.55% of renter households, peaking at 5.5% in 2007. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 39113021301 struggle to pay rent?
About 11.8% 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. 8.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 39113021301 compare to Kettering overall?
Tract 39113021301 scores 3.9/10, right in line with the parent city of Kettering at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Kettering eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Kettering
Top eight tracts in Kettering ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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4.5
/ 10 · Moderate
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39113021501
4.4
/ 10 · Moderate
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4.2
/ 10 · Moderate
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4.2
/ 10 · Moderate
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/ 10 · Moderate
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4
/ 10 · Moderate
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/ 10 · Low
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