Highland Square Eviction Risk: Moderate , Akron

Cost burden runs 71% here against 41.2% across Summit County. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 30.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Set annual rent against average income of $26,357 and the ratio lands at 43%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 8.6/10.

The poverty rate is 34%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Disability prevalence runs 48.2% against 31.5% nationally. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10.

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. Against the Summit County average of 4.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points.

Running cool, state political climate reads 2.4/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,431 filings here across 17 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2017 at 16.2% of renter households.

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.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.