Ellet Eviction Risk: Moderate , Akron

21% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The poverty rate is 24%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Running cool, state political climate reads 2.4/10. Against the Summit County average of 4.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 7.5/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 794 filings here across 17 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2009, when 8.7% of renter households were served.

This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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. In a typical year about 7.0% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the OH average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

42% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

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