Downtown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Middletown

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.8/10. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.5/10. Against the Butler County average of 4.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points.

14% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The poverty rate is 22%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

At $840 a month, rents run 17% under what the rest of Middletown commands. The filing record is not thin: 1,617 evictions over 13 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2006 at 23.5% of renter households.

In a typical year about 17.1% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 73rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.3/10.

Statewide the OH average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.4 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. 41% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.