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Neighborhood · Ranked #57,812 of 84,120 nationally

Old Clintonville Eviction Risk: Lower , Columbus

Tract 39049000410 · Franklin County, OH · pop 2,464 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi

39049000410 is a census tract in the Old Clintonville area of Columbus, OH. It scores 3.5/10 for landlords. Population here is 2,464. Cost burden runs 23% here against 41.6% across Franklin County.

Risk score
3.5
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 17% Stable renters 54% Owners 29%
Tract context
Occupied units1,197
Renter share71.1%
SVI overall0.03
Poverty rate6.6%
Median income$84,527

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Old Clintonville
Moderate
Within parent city
21 th percentile
Rank, 21st percentileLowHigh
#188 of 238 tracts In Columbus
Low
Within county
36 th percentile
Rank, 36th percentileLowHigh
#210 of 328 tracts In Franklin County
Low
Within state
42 th percentile
Rank, 42nd percentileLowHigh
#1,831 of 3,162 tracts In Ohio
Moderate
Geographic context

Risk heat across Columbus and the region

Centroid at 40.0294, -83.0181 · click any tract to drill in

Why Old Clintonville scores 3.5

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local 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
6.6% poverty · this tract
1.7
Supply constraint
$1,384 rent vs county FMR
4.6
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 Old Clintonville compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Old Clintonville risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.5This tracttract 0004104.3Columbusparent city4.4Countyavg tract in county4.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 3

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

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.

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)

  • 110Total filings over 13 yrs
  • 1.19%Avg annual filing rate
  • 2.1%Peak (2005)
  • 3Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2002 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 39049000410
Filings dropped 73% over the past 13 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 20Total filings 2020-21
  • 0.3Avg monthly (observed)
  • 0.5Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.50×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Old Clintonville

The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10. This is renter territory: 71% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Running cool, economic stress reads 1.7/10. Disability prevalence runs 18.3% against 31.5% nationally.

16% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8/10. SNAP participation runs 5.3% against 15.2% nationally.

Against the Franklin County average of 4.4, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.9 points. The filing record is not thin: 110 evictions over 13 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2005, when 2.1% of renter households were served.

This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Columbus. 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 1.2% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 31st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 39049000410

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39049000410?

Census tract 39049000410 in the Old Clintonville neighborhood scores 3.5/10 (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 39049000410?

Median gross rent is $1,384/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 23% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 39049000410?

6.6% of residents in tract 39049000410 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,464.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 39049000410?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 3th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 31th, household 1th, minority 11th, housing 11th.
Q5

Is tract 39049000410 considered part of Old Clintonville?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 39049000410 fall within Old Clintonville (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 39049000410?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 110 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 39049000410 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.19% of renter households, peaking at 2.1% in 2005. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 39049000410 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.50× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings dropped sharply, likely a moratorium effect. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Columbus eviction risk, OH), 2020-2021.
Q8

What share of households in tract 39049000410 struggle to pay rent?

About 7.3% 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. 5.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9

How does tract 39049000410 compare to Columbus overall?

Tract 39049000410 scores 3.5/10, 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 39049000410 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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Top eight tracts in Columbus ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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