Quilliams Highlands Eviction Risk: Moderate , Cleveland Heights
Tract 39035140100 · Cuyahoga County, OH · pop 1,542 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
The Quilliams Highlands area of Cleveland Heights anchors census tract 39035140100, which lands at 6.7/10 on landlord eviction risk. It lands near the 90th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 45% of renter households, a severe level, and 41% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,224 monthly, set against $62,737 in average yearly household income, roughly 23% of income at the averages. Renters make up 31% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Cleveland Heights and the region
Centroid at 41.5402, -81.5509 · click any tract to drill in
Why Quilliams Highlands scores 5.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Quilliams Highlands compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 54
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 76%Socioeconomic
- 20%Household composition
- 82%Racial/ethnic minority
- 27%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 98%Grade B
- 1%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.
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)
- 339Total filings over 12 yrs
- 18.52%Avg annual filing rate
- 20.5%Peak (2005)
- 32Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 22.0%Housing insecurity
- 18.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 29.6%Food insecurity
- 29.4%SNAP enrollment
- 14.5%Transit barriers
- 9.5%No health insurance
- 16.8%Frequent mental distress
- 37.0%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Quilliams Highlands
The heaviest input here is economic stress at 8.8/10. 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 Heights 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.
HOLC surveyors mapped this tract in the 1930s with a dominant grade of B ("Still Desirable"), above the redlined D tier. The grading still shaped decades of lending and development in the surrounding area.
The tract is predominantly Black and ranks around the 54th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
About tract 39035140100
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