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Neighborhood · Ranked #18,163 of 84,120 nationally

Forest Hills Eviction Risk: Elevated , Cleveland

Tract 39035116600 · Cuyahoga County, OH · pop 2,003 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi

39035116600 is a census tract in the Forest Hills area of Cleveland, OH. It scores 6/10 for landlords. Food insecurity runs 39.8% against 17.8% nationally.

Risk score
6
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 24% Stable renters 30% Owners 46%
Tract context
Occupied units853
Renter share53.7%
SVI overall0.95
Poverty rate33.7%
Median income$35,158

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
57 th percentile
Rank, 57th percentileLowHigh
#4 of 8 tracts In Forest Hills
Elevated
Within parent city
75 th percentile
Rank, 75th percentileLowHigh
#41 of 159 tracts In Cleveland
Elevated
Within county
70 th percentile
Rank, 70th percentileLowHigh
#127 of 427 tracts In Cuyahoga County
Elevated
Within state
99 th percentile
Rank, 99th percentileLowHigh
#47 of 3,162 tracts In Ohio
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Cleveland and the region

Centroid at 41.5352, -81.6031 · click any tract to drill in

Why Forest Hills scores 6

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
33.7% poverty · this tract
8.4
Supply constraint
$916 rent vs county FMR
2.6
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 Forest Hills compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Forest Hills risk score vs. parent city / county / state6.0This tracttract 1166004.6Clevelandparent city4.6Countyavg tract in county4.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 95

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)

  • 1,179Total filings over 12 yrs
  • 14.08%Avg annual filing rate
  • 12.3%Peak (2004)
  • 40Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2004 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 39035116600
Filings dropped 68% over the past 12 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 252Total filings 2020-21
  • 3.3Avg monthly (observed)
  • 4.8Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.68×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 Forest Hills. 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 Forest Hills

The poverty rate is 34%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. The score leans hardest on economic stress at 8.4/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 25.7% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

The severe-burden share is 19%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10.

Against the Cuyahoga County average of 4.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10. Court records carry 1,179 eviction filings across 12 observed years.

Filings peaked in 2004 at 12.3% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

In a typical year about 14.1% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 78% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.5/10.

Statewide the OH average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.8 points hotter.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 39035116600

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39035116600?

Census tract 39035116600 in the Forest Hills neighborhood scores 6/10 (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 39035116600?

Median gross rent is $916/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 45% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 39035116600?

33.7% of residents in tract 39035116600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,003.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 39035116600?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 95th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 87th, household 93th, minority 98th, housing 84th.
Q5

Is tract 39035116600 considered part of Forest Hills?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 39035116600 fall within Forest Hills (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 39035116600?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 1,179 eviction filings across 12 validated years in tract 39035116600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 14.08% of renter households, peaking at 12.3% in 2004. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 39035116600 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.68× 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 39035116600 struggle to pay rent?

About 29.7% 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. 25.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9

How does tract 39035116600 compare to Cleveland overall?

Tract 39035116600 scores 6/10, 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 39035116600 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. 41% 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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