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.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.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-friendlyHow Royal Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 14
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 22%Socioeconomic
- 5%Household composition
- 46%Racial/ethnic minority
- 28%Housing & transportation
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.
- 70%Grade A
- 30%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
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.
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)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Royal Heights. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 7.6%Housing insecurity
- 5.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 7.8%Food insecurity
- 5.6%SNAP enrollment
- 5.0%Transit barriers
- 4.6%No health insurance
- 13.8%Frequent mental distress
- 20.8%Any disability
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.
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