Rockton Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated , Kent

80% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, far above the Portage County average of 46.4%. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10. It sits 2.8 points above the Portage County average of 4.5.

The poverty rate is 51%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Annualized rent equals 45% of average household income of $28,159, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.5/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.9/10. 67% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 261 filings here across 7 tracked years.

Filings peaked in 2002 at 5.3% of renter households. In a typical year about 3.0% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #11,153 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

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