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Neighborhood · Ranked #52,479 of 84,120 nationally

Fairfax Triangle Eviction Risk: Lower , Cleveland Heights

Tract 39035141500 · Cuyahoga County, OH · pop 1,581 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi

With a score of 3.8/10, tract 39035141500 in the Fairfax Triangle area of Cleveland Heights, OH reads lower for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 1,581 residents. 30% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Risk score
3.8
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 22% Stable renters 27% Owners 51%
Tract context
Occupied units764
Renter share49.1%
SVI overall0.30
Poverty rate11.2%
Median income$95,167

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 2 tracts In Fairfax Triangle
Very High
Within parent city
32 th percentile
Rank, 32nd percentileLowHigh
#14 of 20 tracts In Cleveland Heights
Low
Within county
40 th percentile
Rank, 40th percentileLowHigh
#255 of 427 tracts In Cuyahoga County
Moderate
Within state
48 th percentile
Rank, 48th percentileLowHigh
#1,637 of 3,162 tracts In Ohio
Moderate
Geographic context

Risk heat across Cleveland Heights and the region

Centroid at 41.4913, -81.5681 · click any tract to drill in

Why Fairfax Triangle scores 3.8

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Cleveland Heights
7.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.7
State political climate
Ohio legislature & governorship
2.4
Economic stress
11.2% poverty · this tract
2.8
Supply constraint
$1,152 rent vs county FMR
4.5
Rent control risk
Inherited from Cleveland Heights
5.9
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.9
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Cleveland Heights
8.4
Housing court bias
Inherited from Cleveland Heights
6.3

How Fairfax Triangle compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Fairfax Triangle risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.8This tracttract 1415004.6Cleveland Heightsparent city4.6Countyavg tract in county4.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 30

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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.

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)

  • 224Total filings over 12 yrs
  • 5.56%Avg annual filing rate
  • 7.6%Peak (2008)
  • 18Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2004 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 39035141500
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 12 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Fairfax Triangle. 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 Fairfax Triangle

The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 8.4/10. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10.

Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.9/10. Food insecurity runs 8.3% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 6.2% against 15.2% nationally.

The filing record is not thin: 224 evictions over 12 years of observation. Against the Cuyahoga County average of 4.6, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.8 points. Filings peaked in 2008 at 7.6% of renter households.

This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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 5.6% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 38% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 39035141500

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39035141500?

Census tract 39035141500 in the Fairfax Triangle neighborhood scores 3.8/10 (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 39035141500?

Median gross rent is $1,152/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 45% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 39035141500?

11.2% of residents in tract 39035141500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,581.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 39035141500?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 30th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 54th, household 19th, minority 46th, housing 17th.
Q5

Is tract 39035141500 considered part of Fairfax Triangle?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 39035141500 fall within Fairfax Triangle (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 39035141500?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 224 eviction filings across 12 validated years in tract 39035141500 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.56% of renter households, peaking at 7.6% in 2008. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 39035141500 struggle to pay rent?

About 7.7% 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. 6.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 39035141500 compare to Cleveland Heights overall?

Tract 39035141500 scores 3.8/10, lower than the parent city of Cleveland Heights at 4.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Cleveland Heights eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9

Was tract 39035141500 historically redlined?

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

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

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