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Royal Heights Eviction Risk: Lower , Cleveland Heights

Tract 39035141700 · Cuyahoga County, OH · pop 1,400 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi

With a score of 3.2/10, tract 39035141700 in the Royal Heights area of Cleveland Heights, OH reads lower for landlord eviction risk. The voucher gap is 42.3%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Risk score
3.2
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 2% Stable renters 6% Owners 92%
Tract context
Occupied units639
Renter share8.0%
SVI overall0.01
Poverty rate2.7%
Median income$110,972

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 2 tracts In Royal Heights
Very High
Within parent city
5 th percentile
Rank, 5th percentileLowHigh
#19 of 20 tracts In Cleveland Heights
Very Low
Within county
29 th percentile
Rank, 29th percentileLowHigh
#305 of 427 tracts In Cuyahoga County
Low
Within state
35 th percentile
Rank, 35th percentileLowHigh
#2,053 of 3,162 tracts In Ohio
Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across Cleveland Heights and the region

Centroid at 41.4906, -81.5531 · click any tract to drill in

Why Royal Heights scores 3.2

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
2.7% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$1,719 rent vs county FMR
9.2
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 Royal Heights compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Royal Heights risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.2This tracttract 1417004.6Cleveland Heightsparent city4.6Countyavg tract in county4.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 1

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)

  • 59Total filings over 12 yrs
  • 34.42%Avg annual filing rate
  • 128.6%Peak (2006)
  • 2Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2004 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 39035141700
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 12 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Royal Heights. 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 Royal Heights

27% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly below the Cuyahoga County average of 43.0%. Average gross rent is $1,719, 41% above the Cleveland Heights average.

The dominant input is supply constraint at 9.2/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.4/10.

16% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Against the Cuyahoga County average of 4.6, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.4 points.

Disability prevalence runs 19.5% against 31.5% nationally. Food insecurity runs 6.2% against 17.8% nationally.

The filing record is not thin: 59 evictions over 12 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2006, when 128.6% of renter households were served.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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 34.4% of renter households face a filing.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.

Frequently asked

About tract 39035141700

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39035141700?

Census tract 39035141700 in the Royal Heights neighborhood scores 3.2/10 (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 39035141700?

Median gross rent is $1,719/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 27% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 39035141700?

2.7% of residents in tract 39035141700 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,400.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 39035141700?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 1th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 1th, household 11th, minority 31th, housing 2th.
Q5

Is tract 39035141700 considered part of Royal Heights?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 39035141700 fall within Royal Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 39035141700?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 59 eviction filings across 12 validated years in tract 39035141700 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 34.42% of renter households, peaking at 128.6% in 2006. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 39035141700 struggle to pay rent?

About 6.4% 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. 4.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 39035141700 compare to Cleveland Heights overall?

Tract 39035141700 scores 3.2/10, 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 39035141700 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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