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Neighborhood · Ranked #18,163 of 84,120 nationally

Old Brooklyn Eviction Risk: Elevated , Cleveland

Tract 39035197400 · Cuyahoga County, OH · pop 3,584 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi

With a score of 6/10, tract 39035197400 in the Old Brooklyn area of Cleveland, OH reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,584 residents. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 8.2/10.

Risk score
6
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 24% Stable renters 22% Owners 54%
Tract context
Occupied units1,726
Renter share45.5%
SVI overall0.71
Poverty rate22.7%
Median income$41,667

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#3 of 5 tracts In Old Brooklyn
Moderate
Within parent city
30 th percentile
Rank, 30th percentileLowHigh
#112 of 159 tracts In Cleveland
Low
Within county
84 th percentile
Rank, 84th percentileLowHigh
#71 of 427 tracts In Cuyahoga County
High
Within state
99 th percentile
Rank, 99th percentileLowHigh
#47 of 3,162 tracts In Ohio
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Cleveland and the region

Centroid at 41.4410, -81.7114 · click any tract to drill in

Why Old Brooklyn scores 6

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Cleveland
7.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.7
State political climate
Ohio legislature & governorship
2.4
Economic stress
22.7% poverty · this tract
5.7
Supply constraint
$910 rent vs county FMR
2.5
Rent control risk
Inherited from Cleveland
2.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Cleveland
6.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Cleveland
5.0

How Old Brooklyn compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Old Brooklyn risk score vs. parent city / county / state6.0This tracttract 1974004.6Clevelandparent city4.6Countyavg tract in county4.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 71

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. 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

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 380Total filings 2020-21
  • 4.9Avg monthly (observed)
  • 6.8Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.72×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Cleveland, OH as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Old Brooklyn. 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 Old Brooklyn

18% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Cost burden runs about half here against 43.0% across Cuyahoga County.

Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10. Against the Cuyahoga County average of 4.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points.

The poverty rate is 23%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.4/10. Food insecurity runs 26.7% against 17.8% nationally.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 14.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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. Nationally it ranks #18,163 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Social vulnerability reads 7.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 39035197400

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39035197400?

Census tract 39035197400 in the Old Brooklyn neighborhood scores 6/10 (Elevated 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 39035197400?

Median gross rent is $910/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 52% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 39035197400?

22.7% of residents in tract 39035197400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,584.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 39035197400?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 71th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 89th, household 52th, minority 60th, housing 38th.
Q5

Is tract 39035197400 considered part of Old Brooklyn?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 39035197400 fall within Old Brooklyn (neighborhood centroid within 0.8 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 39035197400 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.72× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Cleveland eviction risk, OH), 2020-2021.
Q7

What share of households in tract 39035197400 struggle to pay rent?

About 20.3% 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. 14.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 39035197400 compare to Cleveland overall?

Tract 39035197400 scores 6/10, higher than the parent city of Cleveland at 4.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Cleveland eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9

Was tract 39035197400 historically redlined?

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