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Sylvanhurst Eviction Risk: Lower , Lakewood

Tract 39035160300 · Cuyahoga County, OH · pop 1,806 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi

Tract 39035160300 covers the Sylvanhurst neighborhood of Lakewood in Ohio. Home to 1,806 residents, it scores 5.3/10 on landlord eviction risk. It lands near the 49th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.

Rent eats 30% or more of income for 26% of renter households, a moderate level, and 11% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,118 monthly, set against $86,500 in average yearly household income, roughly 16% of income at the averages. Renters make up 26% of occupied homes.

Risk score
3.3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 7% Stable renters 19% Owners 74%
Tract context
Occupied units920
Renter share26.2%
SVI overall0.03
Poverty rate12.2%
Median income$86,500

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 2 tracts In Sylvanhurst
Very High
Within parent city
35 th percentile
Rank, 35th percentileLowHigh
#12 of 18 tracts In Lakewood
Low
Within county
39 th percentile
Rank, 39th percentileLowHigh
#259 of 427 tracts In Cuyahoga County
Low
Within state
45 th percentile
Rank, 45th percentileLowHigh
#1,737 of 3,162 tracts In Ohio
Moderate
Geographic context

Risk heat across Lakewood and the region

Centroid at 41.4896, -81.8092 · click any tract to drill in

Why Sylvanhurst scores 3.3

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
12.2% poverty · this tract
3.0
Supply constraint
$1,118 rent vs county FMR
4.3
Rent control risk
Inherited from Lakewood
4.1
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.2
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Lakewood
9.4
Housing court bias
Inherited from Lakewood
4.8

How Sylvanhurst compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Sylvanhurst risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 3.33.3This tracttract 160300Lakewood: 2.72.7Lakewoodparent cityCounty: 4.04.0Countyavg tract in countyState: 3.73.7Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 3

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)

  • 227Total filings over 12 yrs
  • 6.70%Avg annual filing rate
  • 8.3%Peak (2010)
  • 12Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2004 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 390351603002004: 12 filings (3.30/100 renter HHs)2005: 16 filings (7.08/100 renter HHs)2006: 13 filings (5.75/100 renter HHs)2007: 20 filings (8.85/100 renter HHs)2008: 19 filings (8.41/100 renter HHs)2009: 22 filings (9.73/100 renter HHs)2010: 29 filings (8.29/100 renter HHs)2011: 28 filings (8.46/100 renter HHs)2012: 19 filings (5.74/100 renter HHs)2013: 23 filings (6.95/100 renter HHs)2015: 14 filings (4.23/100 renter HHs)2016: 12 filings (3.57/100 renter HHs)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 12 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Sylvanhurst. 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 Sylvanhurst

What moves this score most is tenant organizing strength at 9.4/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Lakewood eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.

Set against its neighbors, this tract scores below the Cuyahoga County average of 5.8 and in line with the Ohio statewide average of 5.1. Within its own county it reads on the safer 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 White and ranks around the 3rd percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.

For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.

Frequently asked

About tract 39035160300

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39035160300?

Census tract 39035160300 in the Sylvanhurst neighborhood scores 3.3/10 (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 39035160300?

Median gross rent is $1,118/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 26% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 39035160300?

12.2% of residents in tract 39035160300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,806.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 39035160300?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 3th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 31th, household 3th, minority 19th, housing 3th.
Q5

Is tract 39035160300 considered part of Sylvanhurst?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 39035160300 fall within Sylvanhurst (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 39035160300?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 227 eviction filings across 12 validated years in tract 39035160300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 6.70% of renter households, peaking at 8.3% in 2010. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 39035160300 struggle to pay rent?

About 7.6% 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. 5.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 39035160300 compare to Lakewood overall?

Tract 39035160300 scores 3.3/10, higher than the parent city of Lakewood at 2.7/10. 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.
Q9

Was tract 39035160300 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 Lakewood

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

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