East End Eviction Risk: Moderate , Akron

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 28.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10.

Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $31,397, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The poverty rate is 29%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Disability prevalence runs 43.9% against 31.5% nationally.

Cost burden runs about half here against 41.2% across Summit County. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.4/10. It sits 1.3 points above the Summit County average of 4.1.

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 7.5/10. Court records carry 973 eviction filings across 17 observed years. Average gross rent is $852, 11% below the Akron average.

The worst year on record was 2002, when 21.5% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Akron. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

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