Stockyards Eviction Risk: Elevated , Cleveland

The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10. The poverty rate is 54%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Housing insecurity runs 31.1% against 14.2% nationally. Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $31,850, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 24.7% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10. It sits 1.4 points above the Cuyahoga County average of 4.6. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10.

Against Cuyahoga County at 43.0%, 50% of renters here are cost-burdened. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,256 filings here across 12 tracked years.

The worst year on record was 2008, when 14.3% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Cleveland. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 12.8% of renter households face a filing.

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.