Within parent city
29
th percentile
Low
Census Tract · Ranked #28,095 of 84,120 nationally
Portsmouth Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 39145003300 · Scioto County, OH · pop 2,196
39145003300 is a census tract in Portsmouth, OH. It scores 5.3/10 for landlords. around two-thirds of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, far above the Scioto County average of 43.7%.
Risk score
5.3
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 21%
Stable renters 11%
Owners 68%
Tract context
Occupied units1,096
Renter share31.7%
SVI overall0.61
Poverty rate31.9%
Median income$65,337
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
70
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
75
th percentile
Elevated
National
67
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Portsmouth and the region
Centroid at 38.7518, -82.9778 · click any tract to drill in
Why Portsmouth scores 5.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Portsmouth
3.6
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
2.9
State political climate
Ohio legislature & governorship
2.4
Economic stress
31.9% poverty · this tract
8.0
Supply constraint
$866 rent vs county FMR
4.8
Rent control risk
Inherited from Portsmouth
7.4
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.1
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Portsmouth
9.3
Housing court bias
Inherited from Portsmouth
8.5
How Portsmouth compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 61
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 53%Socioeconomic
- 88%Household composition
- 35%Racial/ethnic minority
- 46%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 7%Grade A
- 24%Grade B
- 5%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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)
- 204Total filings over 12 yrs
- 4.20%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.4%Peak (2008)
- 22Filings in 2013 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 69% over the past 12 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.
- 11.1%Housing insecurity
- 9.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 16.0%Food insecurity
- 15.7%SNAP enrollment
- 8.6%Transit barriers
- 7.9%No health insurance
- 18.5%Frequent mental distress
- 39.9%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Portsmouth
The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.3/10. The severe-burden share is 23%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The poverty rate is 32%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
On the high side, housing-court posture reads 8.5/10. Running hot, economic stress reads 8/10. Against the Scioto County average of 4.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.0 points.
Average gross rent is $866, 16% above the Portsmouth average. Court records carry 204 eviction filings across 12 observed years.
The worst year on record was 2008, when 5.4% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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 4.2% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 67th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.5/10.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 39145003300
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39145003300?
Census tract 39145003300 in Portsmouth scores 5.3/10 (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 39145003300?
Median gross rent is $866/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 65% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 39145003300?
31.9% of residents in tract 39145003300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,196.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 39145003300?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 61th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 53th, household 88th, minority 35th, housing 46th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 39145003300?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 204 eviction filings across 12 validated years in tract 39145003300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.20% of renter households, peaking at 5.4% in 2008. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 39145003300 struggle to pay rent?
About 11.1% 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. 9.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 39145003300 compare to Portsmouth overall?
Tract 39145003300 scores 5.3/10, higher than the parent city of Portsmouth at 4.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Portsmouth; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 39145003300 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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