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St. Clair-Superior Eviction Risk: Elevated , Cleveland

Tract 39035116400 · Cuyahoga County, OH · pop 2,193 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi

How risky is the St. Clair-Superior area of Cleveland for landlords? Census tract 39035116400 scores 6.6/10, the Elevated tier. It lands near the 88th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.

About 53% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 49% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is about $791 a month. About 43% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

Risk score
6.2
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 23% Stable renters 20% Owners 57%
Tract context
Occupied units940
Renter share43.2%
SVI overall0.85
Poverty rate47.4%

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 6 tracts In St. Clair-Superior
Very High
Within parent city
88 th percentile
Rank, 88th percentileLowHigh
#20 of 159 tracts In Cleveland
High
Within county
97 th percentile
Rank, 97th percentileLowHigh
#12 of 427 tracts In Cuyahoga County
Very High
Within state
99 th percentile
Rank, 99th percentileLowHigh
#21 of 3,162 tracts In Ohio
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Cleveland and the region

Centroid at 41.5325, -81.6209 · click any tract to drill in

Why St. Clair-Superior scores 6.2

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
47.4% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$791 rent vs county FMR
1.5
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 St. Clair-Superior compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
St. Clair-Superior risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 6.26.2This tracttract 116400Cleveland: 3.73.7Clevelandparent cityCounty: 4.04.0Countyavg tract in countyState: 3.73.7Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 85

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. 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)

  • 900Total filings over 12 yrs
  • 11.51%Avg annual filing rate
  • 15.0%Peak (2008)
  • 52Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2004 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 390351164002004: 76 filings (12.95/100 renter HHs)2005: 65 filings (10.47/100 renter HHs)2006: 80 filings (12.88/100 renter HHs)2007: 88 filings (14.17/100 renter HHs)2008: 93 filings (14.98/100 renter HHs)2009: 79 filings (12.72/100 renter HHs)2010: 70 filings (12.37/100 renter HHs)2011: 82 filings (10.78/100 renter HHs)2012: 80 filings (10.51/100 renter HHs)2013: 60 filings (7.88/100 renter HHs)2015: 75 filings (9.86/100 renter HHs)2016: 52 filings (8.57/100 renter HHs)
Filings dropped 32% over the past 12 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 261Total filings 2020-21
  • 3.4Avg monthly (observed)
  • 4.9Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.69×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline2020-01-01: 3 filings (1.00× baseline)2020-02-01: 2 filings (0.42× baseline)2020-03-01: 2 filings (0.53× baseline)2020-04-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-06-01: 6 filings (1.09× baseline)2020-07-01: 4 filings (0.62× baseline)2020-08-01: 6 filings (1.26× baseline)2020-09-01: 1 filings (0.15× baseline)2020-10-01: 1 filings (0.18× baseline)2020-11-01: 1 filings (0.19× baseline)2020-12-01: 2 filings (0.40× baseline)2021-01-01: 2 filings (0.67× baseline)2021-02-01: 2 filings (0.42× baseline)2021-03-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-04-01: 3 filings (0.48× baseline)2021-05-01: 1 filings (0.17× baseline)2021-06-01: 3 filings (0.55× baseline)2021-07-01: 3 filings (0.46× baseline)2021-08-01: 4 filings (0.84× baseline)2021-09-01: 6 filings (0.92× baseline)2021-10-01: 3 filings (0.55× baseline)2021-11-01: 3 filings (0.57× baseline)2021-12-01: 4 filings (0.80× baseline)2022-01-01: 1 filings (0.33× baseline)2022-02-01: 4 filings (0.84× baseline)2022-03-01: 3 filings (0.80× baseline)2022-04-01: 4 filings (0.64× baseline)2022-05-01: 4 filings (0.67× baseline)2022-06-01: 4 filings (0.73× baseline)2022-07-01: 2 filings (0.31× baseline)2022-08-01: 1 filings (0.21× baseline)2022-09-01: 1 filings (0.15× baseline)2022-10-01: 1 filings (0.18× baseline)2022-11-01: 2 filings (0.38× baseline)2022-12-01: 6 filings (1.20× baseline)2023-01-01: 7 filings (2.33× baseline)2023-02-01: 6 filings (1.26× baseline)2023-03-01: 7 filings (1.87× baseline)2023-04-01: 6 filings (0.96× baseline)2023-05-01: 5 filings (0.83× baseline)2023-06-01: 3 filings (0.55× baseline)2023-07-01: 3 filings (0.46× baseline)2023-08-01: 7 filings (1.47× baseline)2023-09-01: 7 filings (1.08× baseline)2023-10-01: 3 filings (0.55× baseline)2023-11-01: 3 filings (0.57× baseline)2023-12-01: 3 filings (0.60× baseline)2024-01-01: 9 filings (3.00× baseline)2024-02-01: 7 filings (1.47× baseline)2024-03-01: 3 filings (0.80× baseline)2024-04-01: 4 filings (0.64× baseline)2024-05-01: 3 filings (0.50× baseline)2024-06-01: 7 filings (1.27× baseline)2024-07-01: 8 filings (1.23× baseline)2024-08-01: 1 filings (0.21× baseline)2024-09-01: 4 filings (0.62× baseline)2024-10-01: 4 filings (0.73× baseline)2024-11-01: 6 filings (1.14× baseline)2024-12-01: 3 filings (0.60× baseline)2025-01-01: 10 filings (3.33× baseline)2025-02-01: 1 filings (0.21× baseline)2025-03-01: 3 filings (0.80× baseline)2025-04-01: 1 filings (0.16× baseline)2025-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-06-01: 1 filings (0.18× baseline)2025-07-01: 4 filings (0.62× baseline)2025-08-01: 2 filings (0.42× baseline)2025-09-01: 4 filings (0.62× baseline)2025-10-01: 3 filings (0.55× baseline)2025-11-01: 1 filings (0.19× baseline)2025-12-01: 5 filings (1.00× baseline)2026-01-01: 1 filings (10.00× baseline)2026-02-01: 2 filings (20.00× baseline)2026-03-01: 5 filings (50.00× baseline)2026-04-01: 4 filings (40.00× baseline)2026-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× 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 St. Clair-Superior. 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 St. Clair-Superior

What moves this score most is economic stress at $1/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Cleveland eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.

Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Cuyahoga County average of 5.8 and above the Ohio statewide average of 5.1. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.

This tract overlaps land the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation redlined in the 1930s, a dominant grade of D ("Hazardous") across 89% of the tract. Redlining cut off mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class blocks, and those areas still tend to carry higher rent burden and eviction filings today.

During 2020 and 2021, eviction filings here ran at about 0.69x the pre-COVID monthly baseline, well below the pre-pandemic norm, the signature of an eviction moratorium at work.

For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.

Frequently asked

About tract 39035116400

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39035116400?

Census tract 39035116400 in the St. Clair-Superior neighborhood scores 6.2/10 (Elevated 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 39035116400?

Median gross rent is $791/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 53% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 39035116400?

47.4% of residents in tract 39035116400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,193.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 39035116400?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 85th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 93th, household 66th, minority 98th, housing 54th.
Q5

Is tract 39035116400 considered part of St. Clair-Superior?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 39035116400 fall within St. Clair-Superior (neighborhood centroid within 0.9 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 39035116400?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 900 eviction filings across 12 validated years in tract 39035116400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 11.51% of renter households, peaking at 15.0% in 2008. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 39035116400 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.69× 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 39035116400 struggle to pay rent?

About 35.9% 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. 32.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9

How does tract 39035116400 compare to Cleveland overall?

Tract 39035116400 scores 6.2/10, higher than the parent city of Cleveland at 3.7/10. 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 39035116400 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 89% 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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