Downtown Eviction Risk: Elevated , Bowling Green

30% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. It sits 2.3 points above the Wood County average of 4.0. 82% 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.

Running hot, housing-court posture reads 8.3/10. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.8/10. Against Wood County at 35.7%, 44% of renters here are cost-burdened.

The poverty rate is 24%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Court records carry 91 eviction filings across 2 observed years. Average gross rent is $785, 12% below the Bowling Green average.

The worst year on record was 2012, when 2.7% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 2.2% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 80% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4/10.

Statewide the OH average is 4.2, so this tract runs 2.1 points hotter.

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