SoDo District Eviction Risk: Moderate

Against a Akron baseline of 31.7%, 43% of renters here cross the 30%-of-income line. What pushes the score up most is economic stress at 9/10. Annualized rent equals 37% of average household income here, past the 30% affordability line, which compresses the margin any screening standard has to work with.

75% 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. The severe-burden share is 23%. Those renters are past the 50% mark, and they miss rent for reasons that have nothing to do with willingness to pay.

Food insecurity affects 37.2% of adults, 19.4 points above the national rate. Well under the midpoint is rent-regulation exposure, at 1.5/10. CDC survey data puts housing insecurity at 27.3% of adults, against 14.2% nationally.

Running cool is supply constraint, at 1.9/10. At $754 a month, rents sit 21% under what the rest of Akron commands.

Court records carry 1,724 eviction filings across its 2 observed tracts. The worst year on record was 2007, when filings touched 49.1% of renter households.

The most recent observed rate, 7.6% in 2018, is well off that peak.

With little internal variation, 5.4/10 is a fair proxy for any address inside the boundary. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.