Downtown Akron Eviction Risk: Moderate

The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10. The poverty rate is 42%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest.

Annualized rent equals 46% of average household income here, past the 30% affordability line, which compresses the margin any screening standard has to work with. Average gross rent is $602, 37% below the Akron average of $955. 87% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building two streets over.

CDC survey data puts housing insecurity at 32.6% of adults, against 14.2% nationally. Running cool is supply constraint, at 1/10. 21% are severely burdened, paying half their income or more in rent. That cohort has no absorption capacity for an unexpected bill, and it is where non-payment filings originate.

On the softer side is rent-regulation exposure, at 1.5/10. Disability prevalence reaches 47.0% against a 31.5% national average, which raises the odds a reasonable-accommodation request accompanies any dispute.

The filing record is not thin: 1,007 evictions logged in this tract. Filing activity peaked in 2004 at 15.4% of renter households.

One tract means one number: 5.4/10 applies directly to any address inside the boundary. The number is rebuilt whenever its ACS, court-record, or statutory inputs change.