Oak Park Eviction Risk: Moderate

The strongest single driver of the headline number 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. Set annual rent against average household income of $16,740 and the ratio lands at 45%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

At $622 a month, rents sit 35% under what the rest of Akron commands. 79% 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. Well under the midpoint is supply constraint, at 1/10.

Food insecurity affects 37.7% of adults, 19.9 points above the national rate. The severe-burden share is 20%. Those renters are past the 50% mark, and they miss rent for reasons that have nothing to do with willingness to pay.

On the softer side is rent-regulation exposure, at 1.5/10. CDC survey data puts housing insecurity at 26.4% of adults, against 14.2% nationally.

Court records for this tract carry 1,628 eviction filings. The worst year on record was 2005, when filings touched 13.6% of renter households.

Recent filings have not receded much: 12.5% in 2018 against a 13.6% peak.

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.