Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Whetstone Eviction Risk: Lower , Columbus
Tract 39049000120 · Franklin County, OH · pop 3,339 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
39049000120 is a census tract in the Whetstone area of Columbus, OH. It scores 3/10 for landlords. Population here is 3,339. Against Franklin County at 41.6%, 20% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 3%
Stable renters 13%
Owners 84%
Tract context
Occupied units1,693
Renter share16.5%
SVI overall0.09
Poverty rate3.3%
Median income$120,078
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
9
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
17
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
31
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Columbus and the region
Centroid at 40.0510, -83.0237 · click any tract to drill in
Why Whetstone scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Columbus
6.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.6
State political climate
Ohio legislature & governorship
2.4
Economic stress
3.3% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$1,225 rent vs county FMR
3.5
Rent control risk
Inherited from Columbus
1.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
4.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Columbus
5.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Columbus
4.0
How Whetstone compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 9
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 4%Socioeconomic
- 33%Household composition
- 12%Racial/ethnic minority
- 23%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 17%Grade A
- 35%Grade B
- 2%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.
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)
- 47Total filings over 13 yrs
- 1.40%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.7%Peak (2003)
- 3Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 40% over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 15Total filings 2020-21
- 0.2Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.2Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.07×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran near baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Columbus, OH as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
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.
- 4.7%Housing insecurity
- 3.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 4.9%Food insecurity
- 3.2%SNAP enrollment
- 3.5%Transit barriers
- 3.7%No health insurance
- 13.1%Frequent mental distress
- 19.1%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Whetstone
The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. Severe burden reaches 17%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Food insecurity runs 4.9% against 17.8% nationally. Against the Franklin County average of 4.4, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.4 points.
Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8/10. Court records carry 47 eviction filings across 13 observed years.
Adults with no health insurance runs 3.7% against 11.3% nationally. The worst year on record was 2003, when 2.7% of renter households were served.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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. In a typical year about 1.4% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Only 17% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 39049000120
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39049000120?
Census tract 39049000120 in the Whetstone 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 39049000120?
Median gross rent is $1,225/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 20% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 39049000120?
3.3% of residents in tract 39049000120 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,339.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 39049000120?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 9th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 4th, household 33th, minority 12th, housing 23th.
Q5
Is tract 39049000120 considered part of Whetstone?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 39049000120 fall within Whetstone (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 39049000120?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 47 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 39049000120 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.40% of renter households, peaking at 2.7% in 2003. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 39049000120 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 1.07× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings returned near baseline. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Columbus eviction risk, OH), 2020-2021.
Q8
What share of households in tract 39049000120 struggle to pay rent?
About 4.7% 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. 3.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 39049000120 compare to Columbus overall?
Tract 39049000120 scores 3/10, lower than the parent city of Columbus at 4.3/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Columbus eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q10
Was tract 39049000120 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 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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