East Palestine Eviction Risk: Lower

The main counterweight is supply constraint at 1.2/10. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.9/10.

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2.3/10. It sits 1.0 points below the Columbiana County average of 4.0.

Court records carry 101 eviction filings across 10 observed years. Filings peaked in 2005 at 4.7% of renter households. In a typical year about 3.1% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 14% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Social vulnerability reads 5.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Rent consumes only 11% of average household income of $61,641, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the OH average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.2 points cooler.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.