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Neighborhood · Ranked #44,239 of 84,120 nationally

Uptown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Lakewood

Tract 39035161300 · Cuyahoga County, OH · pop 2,800 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi

Census tract 39035161300 covers part of the Uptown area of Lakewood, OH, and scores 4.3/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,800 residents. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.4/10.

Risk score
4.3
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 18% Stable renters 28% Owners 54%
Tract context
Occupied units1,418
Renter share45.1%
SVI overall0.48
Poverty rate13.5%
Median income$70,801

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
80 th percentile
Rank, 80th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 6 tracts In Uptown
High
Within parent city
53 th percentile
Rank, 53rd percentileLowHigh
#9 of 18 tracts In Lakewood
Moderate
Within county
47 th percentile
Rank, 47th percentileLowHigh
#228 of 427 tracts In Cuyahoga County
Moderate
Within state
59 th percentile
Rank, 59th percentileLowHigh
#1,311 of 3,162 tracts In Ohio
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Lakewood and the region

Centroid at 41.4776, -81.7973 · click any tract to drill in

Why Uptown scores 4.3

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
13.5% poverty · this tract
3.4
Supply constraint
$920 rent vs county FMR
2.6
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 Uptown compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Uptown risk score vs. parent city / county / state4.3This tracttract 1613004.4Lakewoodparent city4.6Countyavg tract in county4.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 48

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)

  • 396Total filings over 12 yrs
  • 5.45%Avg annual filing rate
  • 8.8%Peak (2008)
  • 23Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2004 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 39035161300
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 12 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Uptown. 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 Uptown

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10. Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.2/10.

Severe burden reaches 9%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The filing record is not thin: 396 evictions over 12 years of observation.

Food insecurity runs 9.4% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 7.2% against 15.2% nationally. At $920 a month, rents run 14% under what the rest of Lakewood commands.

Against Cuyahoga County at 43.0%, 39% of renters here are cost-burdened. The worst year on record was 2008, when 8.8% 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 5.5% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 47% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 39035161300

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39035161300?

Census tract 39035161300 in the Uptown neighborhood scores 4.3/10 (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 39035161300?

Median gross rent is $920/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 39% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 39035161300?

13.5% of residents in tract 39035161300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,800.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 39035161300?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 48th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 51th, household 33th, minority 27th, housing 62th.
Q5

Is tract 39035161300 considered part of Uptown?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 39035161300 fall within Uptown (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 39035161300?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 396 eviction filings across 12 validated years in tract 39035161300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.45% of renter households, peaking at 8.8% in 2008. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 39035161300 struggle to pay rent?

About 8.6% 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. 6.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 39035161300 compare to Lakewood overall?

Tract 39035161300 scores 4.3/10, right in line with the parent city of Lakewood at 4.4/10. 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 39035161300 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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