Fairfield Eviction Risk: Moderate

Against Butler County at 39.6%, 49% of renters here are cost-burdened. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.9/10.

17% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Running cool, state political climate reads 2.4/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 2,109 filings here across 13 tracked years.

At $1,077 a month, rents run 13% under what the rest of Fairfield commands. The worst year on record was 2010, when 11.0% of renter households were served.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 9.9% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 55th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 8.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. It tracks the Butler County average of 4.3 closely. Annual rent works out to 22% of average household income of $59,307.

61% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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