Skip to content
Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally

Royal Heights Eviction Risk: Lower , Cleveland Heights

Tract 39035187104 · Cuyahoga County, OH · pop 3,161 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi

With a score of 3/10, tract 39035187104 in the Royal Heights area of University Heights, OH reads lower for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,161. Against Cuyahoga County at 43.0%, 60% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 19% Stable renters 13% Owners 68%
Tract context
Occupied units1,314
Renter share31.5%
SVI overall0.14
Poverty rate8.2%
Median income$125,658

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 2 tracts In Royal Heights
Very Low
Within parent city
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#4 of 4 tracts In Cleveland Heights
Very Low
Within county
20 th percentile
Rank, 20th percentileLowHigh
#343 of 427 tracts In Cuyahoga County
Very Low
Within state
31 th percentile
Rank, 31st percentileLowHigh
#2,197 of 3,162 tracts In Ohio
Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across Cleveland Heights and the region

Centroid at 41.4921, -81.5434 · click any tract to drill in

Why Royal Heights scores 3

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
8.2% poverty · this tract
2.0
Supply constraint
$1,707 rent vs county FMR
9.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from Cleveland Heights
6.7
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.2
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Cleveland Heights
7.2
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 / state3.0This tracttract 1871044.6Cleveland Heightsparent city4.6Countyavg tract in county4.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 14

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: A: Best

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. 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)

  • 128Total filings over 12 yrs
  • 3.41%Avg annual filing rate
  • 5.6%Peak (2013)
  • 6Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2004 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 39035187104
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

The voucher gap is 41.3%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Severe burden reaches 29%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

What pushes it up most is supply constraint at 9.1/10. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10.

Against the Cuyahoga County average of 4.6, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.6 points. Running cool, economic stress reads 2/10.

Food insecurity runs 7.8% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 5.6% against 15.2% nationally.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 128 filings here across 12 tracked years. At $1,707 a month, rents run 13% over what the rest of University Heights commands. The worst year on record was 2013, when 5.6% of renter households were served.

This ground was mapped A ("Best") 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 3.4% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 2.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Against average income of $125,658, annual rent is just 16%.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 39035187104

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39035187104?

Census tract 39035187104 in the Royal Heights neighborhood scores 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 39035187104?

Median gross rent is $1,707/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 60% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 39035187104?

8.2% of residents in tract 39035187104 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,161.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 39035187104?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 14th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 22th, household 5th, minority 46th, housing 28th.
Q5

Is tract 39035187104 considered part of Royal Heights?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 39035187104 fall within Royal Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 39035187104?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 128 eviction filings across 12 validated years in tract 39035187104 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.41% of renter households, peaking at 5.6% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 39035187104 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. 5.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 39035187104 compare to Cleveland Heights overall?

Tract 39035187104 scores 3/10, 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 39035187104 historically redlined?

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

Related