South Main Street Historic District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Middletown

What pushes it up most is economic stress at 9.3/10. The poverty rate is 37%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.8/10.

50% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Butler County average of 39.6%. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.8/10.

Against the Butler County average of 4.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points. Housing insecurity runs 25.6% against 14.2% nationally.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 20.2% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Court records carry 883 eviction filings across 13 observed years. Filings peaked in 2018 at 19.1% of renter households.

In a typical year about 13.9% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 73% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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.