Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Valley Forge Eviction Risk: Lower , Stow
Tract 39153530401 · Summit County, OH · pop 3,496 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Tract 39153530401 sits in the Valley Forge area of Stow eviction risk, OH, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3/10. It is home to 3,496 residents. Severe burden reaches 47%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 16%
Stable renters 8%
Owners 76%
Tract context
Occupied units1,345
Renter share23.2%
SVI overall0.37
Poverty rate4.7%
Median income$111,172
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
71
th percentile
Elevated
Within county
16
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
31
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Stow and the region
Centroid at 41.1727, -81.4388 · click any tract to drill in
Why Valley Forge scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Stow
5.9
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.5
State political climate
Ohio legislature & governorship
2.4
Economic stress
4.7% poverty · this tract
1.2
Supply constraint
$1,154 rent vs county FMR
5.2
Rent control risk
Inherited from Stow
5.3
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.1
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Stow
6.3
Housing court bias
Inherited from Stow
4.5
How Valley Forge compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 37
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 27%Socioeconomic
- 35%Household composition
- 8%Racial/ethnic minority
- 73%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 18%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Eviction filings
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 175Total filings over 17 yrs
- 2.70%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.6%Peak (2007)
- 8Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 50% over the past 17 months.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 8.5%Housing insecurity
- 5.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 9.6%Food insecurity
- 7.0%SNAP enrollment
- 5.7%Transit barriers
- 6.3%No health insurance
- 16.9%Frequent mental distress
- 28.5%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Valley Forge
Against Summit County at 41.2%, 68% of renters here are cost-burdened. The clearest offset is economic stress at 1.2/10.
Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.1/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.4/10.
Against the Summit County average of 4.1, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.1 points. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 175 filings here across 17 tracked years.
Food insecurity runs 9.6% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 7.0% against 15.2% nationally.
The worst year on record was 2007, when 6.6% 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 2.7% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 39153530401
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39153530401?
Census tract 39153530401 in the Valley Forge neighborhood scores 3/10 (Lower tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 39153530401?
Median gross rent is $1,154/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 68% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 39153530401?
4.7% of residents in tract 39153530401 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,496.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 39153530401?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 37th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 27th, household 35th, minority 8th, housing 73th.
Q5
Is tract 39153530401 considered part of Valley Forge?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 39153530401 fall within Valley Forge (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 39153530401?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 175 eviction filings across 17 validated years in tract 39153530401 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.70% of renter households, peaking at 6.6% in 2007. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 39153530401 struggle to pay rent?
About 8.5% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 5.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 39153530401 compare to Stow overall?
Tract 39153530401 scores 3/10, lower than the parent city of Stow at 3.8/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Stow eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 39153530401 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Stow
Top eight tracts in Stow ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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