Uptown Eviction Risk: Elevated , Lakewood

Annualized rent equals 50% of average household income of $37,474, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Severe burden reaches 29%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

88% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. The voucher gap is 29.6%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

The poverty rate is 32%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 8.2/10. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10.

Against the Cuyahoga County average of 4.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points. Sitting well above the midpoint, supply constraint reads 8/10. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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.

On the national scale it lands near the 78th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.8/10.

Statewide the OH average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.8 points hotter.

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.