Downtown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Middletown

What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10. Set annual rent against average income of $16,368 and the ratio lands at 51%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. 33% 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 46%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. This is renter territory: 88% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10.

At $692 a month, rents run 31% under what the rest of Middletown commands. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.8/10.

Disability prevalence runs 44.6% against 31.5% nationally. Against the Butler County average of 4.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 19.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,079 filings here across 13 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2013, when 19.8% of renter households were served.

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.