Lancaster West Main Street Historic District Eviction Risk: Moderate

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.7/10. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.9/10.

It sits 1.4 points above the Fairfield County average of 4.0. 12% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 756 filings here across 13 tracked years.

At $968 a month, rents run 11% under what the rest of Lancaster commands. The worst year on record was 2015, when 6.9% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 6.7% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #24,859 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the OH average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter.

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