Downtown Conneaut Eviction Risk: Moderate

The poverty rate is 38%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Severe burden reaches 26%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. 52% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Ashtabula County average of 44.4%.

Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 7.7/10. It sits 1.2 points above the Ashtabula County average of 4.2. Running cool, state political climate reads 2.4/10.

Food insecurity runs 26.8% against 17.8% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 453 evictions over 15 years of observation. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 14.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

The worst year on record was 2005, when 7.2% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 4.4% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.