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Neighborhood · Ranked #56,048 of 84,120 nationally

Uptown Eviction Risk: Lower , Lakewood

Tract 39035123100 · Cuyahoga County, OH · pop 2,656 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi

With a score of 3.6/10, tract 39035123100 in the Uptown area of Cleveland, OH reads lower for landlord eviction risk. The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 8.2/10.

Risk score
3.6
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 12% Stable renters 13% Owners 75%
Tract context
Occupied units1,268
Renter share25.4%
SVI overall0.12
Poverty rate10.3%
Median income$97,292

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
40 th percentile
Rank, 40th percentileLowHigh
#4 of 6 tracts In Uptown
Moderate
Within parent city
1 th percentile
Rank, 1st percentileLowHigh
#157 of 159 tracts In Lakewood
Very Low
Within county
37 th percentile
Rank, 37th percentileLowHigh
#269 of 427 tracts In Cuyahoga County
Low
Within state
44 th percentile
Rank, 44th percentileLowHigh
#1,761 of 3,162 tracts In Ohio
Moderate
Geographic context

Risk heat across Lakewood and the region

Centroid at 41.4655, -81.8062 · click any tract to drill in

Why Uptown scores 3.6

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Lakewood
7.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.7
State political climate
Ohio legislature & governorship
2.4
Economic stress
10.3% poverty · this tract
2.6
Supply constraint
$1,119 rent vs county FMR
4.3
Rent control risk
Inherited from Lakewood
2.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Lakewood
6.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Lakewood
5.0

How Uptown compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Uptown risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.6This tracttract 1231004.4Lakewoodparent city4.6Countyavg tract in county4.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 12

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: A: Best

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. 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)

  • 119Total filings over 12 yrs
  • 3.75%Avg annual filing rate
  • 6.8%Peak (2013)
  • 3Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2004 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 39035123100
Filings dropped 57% over the past 12 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 31Total filings 2020-21
  • 0.4Avg monthly (observed)
  • 0.4Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.94×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

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

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Uptown. 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 Uptown

21% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.4/10.

Against Cuyahoga County at 43.0%, 49% of renters here are cost-burdened. Average gross rent is $1,119, 18% above the Cleveland average. It sits 1.0 points below the Cuyahoga County average of 4.6.

The filing record is not thin: 119 evictions over 12 years of observation. Food insecurity runs 9.6% against 17.8% nationally.

SNAP participation runs 7.0% against 15.2% nationally. Filings peaked in 2013 at 6.8% of renter households.

This ground was mapped A ("Best") 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 3.7% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #56,048 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 39035123100

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39035123100?

Census tract 39035123100 in the Uptown neighborhood scores 3.6/10 (Lower 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 39035123100?

Median gross rent is $1,119/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 49% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 39035123100?

10.3% of residents in tract 39035123100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,656.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 39035123100?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 12th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 28th, household 14th, minority 19th, housing 12th.
Q5

Is tract 39035123100 considered part of Uptown?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 39035123100 fall within Uptown (neighborhood centroid within 0.8 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 39035123100?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 119 eviction filings across 12 validated years in tract 39035123100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.75% of renter households, peaking at 6.8% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 39035123100 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.94× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Cleveland eviction risk, OH), 2020-2021.
Q8

What share of households in tract 39035123100 struggle to pay rent?

About 8.3% 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. 6.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9

How does tract 39035123100 compare to Lakewood overall?

Tract 39035123100 scores 3.6/10, lower than the parent city of Lakewood at 4.4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Lakewood eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q10

Was tract 39035123100 historically redlined?

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

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

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