Census Tract · Ranked #18,163 of 84,120 nationally

Zanesville Eviction Risk: Elevated

Tract 39119911400 · Muskingum County, OH · pop 4,064 · 49% of tract blocks fall in Zanesville

Census tract 39119911400 covers part of Zanesville, OH, and scores 6/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 4,064 residents. Severe burden reaches 36%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score

Elevated

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 26% Stable renters 19% Owners 55%

Tract context

Occupied units1,676

Renter share45.3%

SVI overall0.77

Poverty rate32.8%

Median income$34,324

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Zanesville and the region

Centroid at 39.9463, -82.0558 · click any tract to drill in

Why Zanesville scores 6

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly

Local political climate

Inherited from Zanesville

3.7

Regional political climate

2024 county presidential margin

3.0

State political climate

Ohio legislature & governorship

2.4

Economic stress

32.8% poverty · this tract

8.2

Supply constraint

$723 rent vs county FMR

3.2

Rent control risk

Inherited from Zanesville

8.0

Eviction process difficulty

State law sets the calendar

2.0

Tenant organizing strength

Inherited from Zanesville

9.5

Housing court bias

Inherited from Zanesville

8.4

How Zanesville compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 77

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

87%Socioeconomic
93%Household composition
39%Racial/ethnic minority
36%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)

477Total filings over 9 yrs
9.99%Avg annual filing rate
10.6%Peak (2016)
54Filings in 2018 (latest validated)

Filings by year 2004 to 2018

Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 9 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.

18.8%Housing insecurity
15.4%Utility-shutoff threat
26.7%Food insecurity
28.3%SNAP enrollment
13.8%Transit barriers
12.1%No health insurance
22.9%Frequent mental distress
39.8%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Zanesville

58% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Muskingum County average of 41.4%. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.5/10.

The poverty rate is 33%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the high side, housing-court posture reads 8.4/10.

It sits 1.8 points above the Muskingum County average of 4.2. Running hot, economic stress reads 8.2/10. SNAP participation runs 28.3% against 15.2% nationally.

Food insecurity runs 26.7% against 17.8% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 477 evictions over 9 years of observation. At $723 a month, rents run 12% under what the rest of Zanesville commands.

The worst year on record was 2016, when 10.6% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 10.0% of renter households face a filing.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 39119911400

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39119911400?

Census tract 39119911400 in Zanesville scores 6/10 (Elevated tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

What is the average rent in tract 39119911400?

Median gross rent is $723/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 58% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 39119911400?

32.8% of residents in tract 39119911400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,064.

How socially vulnerable is tract 39119911400?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 77th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 87th, household 93th, minority 39th, housing 36th.

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 39119911400?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 477 eviction filings across 9 validated years in tract 39119911400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 9.99% of renter households, peaking at 10.6% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.

What share of households in tract 39119911400 struggle to pay rent?

About 18.8% 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. 15.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 39119911400 compare to Zanesville overall?

Tract 39119911400 scores 6/10, higher than the parent city of Zanesville at 4.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Zanesville; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.

Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Zanesville

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

Eviction Lab tract-level court records (2000-2018) and Eviction Tracking System, Princeton University. Open Data Commons Attribution license. evictionlab.org