Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #41,206 of 84,120 nationally
Bedford Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 39035133103 · Cuyahoga County, OH · pop 3,248
Tract 39035133103 sits in Bedford Heights, OH, carrying an eviction-risk score of 4.5/10. It is home to 3,248 residents. Severe burden reaches 33%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
4.5
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 32%
Stable renters 24%
Owners 44%
Tract context
Occupied units1,555
Renter share56.5%
SVI overall0.78
Poverty rate9.1%
Median income$46,410
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
50
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
62
th percentile
Elevated
National
51
th percentile
Moderate
Geographic context
Risk heat across Bedford Heights and the region
Centroid at 41.4143, -81.5166 · click any tract to drill in
Why Bedford Heights scores 4.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Bedford Heights
7.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.7
State political climate
Ohio legislature & governorship
2.4
Economic stress
9.1% poverty · this tract
2.3
Supply constraint
$1,022 rent vs county FMR
3.5
Rent control risk
Inherited from Bedford Heights
7.3
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.8
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Bedford Heights
9.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Bedford Heights
6.7
How Bedford Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 78
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 73%Socioeconomic
- 44%Household composition
- 87%Racial/ethnic minority
- 82%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
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)
- 1,840Total filings over 12 yrs
- 15.31%Avg annual filing rate
- 19.4%Peak (2011)
- 160Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 23% over the past 12 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 21.1%Housing insecurity
- 16.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 26.6%Food insecurity
- 24.6%SNAP enrollment
- 12.9%Transit barriers
- 8.8%No health insurance
- 17.0%Frequent mental distress
- 35.2%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Bedford Heights
The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.5/10. Cost burden runs 57% here against 43.0% across Cuyahoga County. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10.
Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2.3/10. SNAP participation runs 24.6% against 15.2% nationally.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,840 filings here across 12 tracked years. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 16.7% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.
Filings peaked in 2011 at 19.4% of renter households. 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 15.3% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 51% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8/10. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 39035133103
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39035133103?
Census tract 39035133103 in Bedford Heights scores 4.5/10 (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 39035133103?
Median gross rent is $1,022/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 57% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 39035133103?
9.1% of residents in tract 39035133103 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,248.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 39035133103?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 78th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 73th, household 44th, minority 87th, housing 82th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 39035133103?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 1,840 eviction filings across 12 validated years in tract 39035133103 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 15.31% of renter households, peaking at 19.4% in 2011. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 39035133103 struggle to pay rent?
About 21.1% 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. 16.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 39035133103 compare to Bedford Heights overall?
Tract 39035133103 scores 4.5/10, right in line with the parent city of Bedford Heights at 4.4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Bedford Heights; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 39035133103 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 Bedford Heights
Top eight tracts in Bedford Heights ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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