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Neighborhood · Ranked #23,808 of 84,120 nationally

Old Brooklyn Eviction Risk: Moderate , Cleveland

Tract 39035106600 · Cuyahoga County, OH · pop 3,278 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi

With a score of 5.5/10, tract 39035106600 in the Old Brooklyn area of Cleveland, OH reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,278 residents. 25% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Risk score
5.5
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 18% Stable renters 27% Owners 55%
Tract context
Occupied units1,294
Renter share45.7%
SVI overall0.64
Poverty rate19.6%
Median income$55,313

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
25 th percentile
Rank, 25th percentileLowHigh
#4 of 5 tracts In Old Brooklyn
Low
Within parent city
21 th percentile
Rank, 21st percentileLowHigh
#126 of 159 tracts In Cleveland
Low
Within county
62 th percentile
Rank, 62nd percentileLowHigh
#162 of 427 tracts In Cuyahoga County
Elevated
Within state
83 th percentile
Rank, 83rd percentileLowHigh
#527 of 3,162 tracts In Ohio
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Cleveland and the region

Centroid at 41.4254, -81.7148 · click any tract to drill in

Why Old Brooklyn scores 5.5

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Cleveland
7.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.7
State political climate
Ohio legislature & governorship
2.4
Economic stress
19.6% poverty · this tract
4.9
Supply constraint
$942 rent vs county FMR
2.8
Rent control risk
Inherited from Cleveland
2.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Cleveland
6.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Cleveland
5.0

How Old Brooklyn compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Old Brooklyn risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.5This tracttract 1066004.6Clevelandparent city4.6Countyavg tract in county4.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 64

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

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.

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)

  • 545Total filings over 12 yrs
  • 8.85%Avg annual filing rate
  • 10.1%Peak (2012)
  • 44Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2004 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 39035106600
Filings dropped 15% over the past 12 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 192Total filings 2020-21
  • 2.5Avg monthly (observed)
  • 3.7Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.67×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Cleveland, OH as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Old Brooklyn. 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Old Brooklyn

The dominant input is court filing pressure at 8.2/10. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10.

Running cool, state political climate reads 2.4/10. The poverty rate is 20%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Food insecurity runs 26.9% against 17.8% nationally. Against the Cuyahoga County average of 4.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.9 points.

The filing record is not thin: 545 evictions over 12 years of observation. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.0% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The worst year on record was 2012, when 10.1% 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 8.8% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 72% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

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 39035106600

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39035106600?

Census tract 39035106600 in the Old Brooklyn neighborhood scores 5.5/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 39035106600?

Median gross rent is $942/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 40% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 39035106600?

19.6% of residents in tract 39035106600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,278.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 39035106600?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 64th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 80th, household 50th, minority 52th, housing 39th.
Q5

Is tract 39035106600 considered part of Old Brooklyn?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 39035106600 fall within Old Brooklyn (neighborhood centroid within 1.0 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 39035106600?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 545 eviction filings across 12 validated years in tract 39035106600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 8.85% of renter households, peaking at 10.1% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 39035106600 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.67× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings dropped sharply, likely a moratorium effect. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Cleveland eviction risk, OH), 2020-2021.
Q8

What share of households in tract 39035106600 struggle to pay rent?

About 19.9% 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. 15.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9

How does tract 39035106600 compare to Cleveland overall?

Tract 39035106600 scores 5.5/10, higher than the parent city of Cleveland at 4.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Cleveland eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q10

Was tract 39035106600 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. 0% 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 Cleveland

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

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