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South Fountain Avenue Historic District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Springfield

Tract 39023001101 · Clark County, OH · pop 1,135 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi

With a score of 5.6/10, tract 39023001101 in the South Fountain Avenue Historic District area of Springfield, OH reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 1,135 residents. Severe burden reaches 47%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score

5.6

Moderate

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 37% Stable renters 25% Owners 38%

Tract context

Occupied units563

Renter share62.2%

SVI overall0.65

Poverty rate37.7%

Median income$22,409

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Springfield and the region

Centroid at 39.9102, -83.8162 · click any tract to drill in

Why South Fountain Avenue Historic District scores 5.6

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly

Local political climate

Inherited from Springfield

4.5

Regional political climate

2024 county presidential margin

3.8

State political climate

Ohio legislature & governorship

2.4

Economic stress

37.7% poverty · this tract

9.4

Supply constraint

$873 rent vs county FMR

3.2

Rent control risk

Inherited from Springfield

5.6

Eviction process difficulty

State law sets the calendar

1.9

Tenant organizing strength

Inherited from Springfield

8.9

Housing court bias

Inherited from Springfield

7.0

How South Fountain Avenue Historic District compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 65

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

69%Socioeconomic
87%Household composition
77%Racial/ethnic minority
21%Housing & transportation

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

19%Grade A
27%Grade B
35%Grade C
19%Grade D · redlined

Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Eviction filings

Court-record eviction history

Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.¹

Historic baseline (2000–2018)

206Total filings over 6 yrs
12.79%Avg annual filing rate
19.0%Peak (2003)
35Filings in 2018 (latest validated)

Filings by year 2003 to 2018

Filings dropped 33% over the past 6 months.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within South Fountain Avenue Historic District. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress

Eviction-adjacent indicators

Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.

28.0%Housing insecurity
23.5%Utility-shutoff threat
38.9%Food insecurity
41.0%SNAP enrollment
19.4%Transit barriers
14.6%No health insurance
23.1%Frequent mental distress
43.3%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in South Fountain Avenue Historic District

Cost burden runs 60% here against 39.6% across Clark County. SNAP participation runs 41.0% against 15.2% nationally. Set annual rent against average income of $22,409 and the ratio lands at 47%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

What pushes it up most is economic stress at 9.4/10. The poverty rate is 38%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.9/10.

Housing insecurity runs 28.0% against 14.2% nationally. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.9/10. Against the Clark County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 206 filings here across 6 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2003, when 19.0% 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.

Frequently asked

About tract 39023001101

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39023001101?

Census tract 39023001101 in the South Fountain Avenue Historic District neighborhood scores 5.6/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

What is the average rent in tract 39023001101?

Median gross rent is $873/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 60% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 39023001101?

37.7% of residents in tract 39023001101 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,135.

How socially vulnerable is tract 39023001101?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 65th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 69th, household 87th, minority 77th, housing 21th.

Is tract 39023001101 considered part of South Fountain Avenue Historic District?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 39023001101 fall within South Fountain Avenue Historic District (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 39023001101?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 206 eviction filings across 6 validated years in tract 39023001101 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 12.79% of renter households, peaking at 19.0% in 2003. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.

What share of households in tract 39023001101 struggle to pay rent?

About 28.0% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 23.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 39023001101 compare to Springfield overall?

Tract 39023001101 scores 5.6/10, higher than the parent city of Springfield at 4.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Springfield eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.

Was tract 39023001101 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 19% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.

Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Springfield

Top eight tracts in Springfield ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

Eviction Lab tract-level court records (2000-2018) and Eviction Tracking System, Princeton University. Open Data Commons Attribution license. evictionlab.org