Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #41,206 of 84,120 nationally
Crestview Eviction Risk: Moderate , Columbus
Tract 39049000500 · Franklin County, OH · pop 4,367 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
Census tract 39049000500 covers part of the Crestview area of Columbus, OH, and scores 4.5/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 4,367. 25% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Risk score
4.5
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 21%
Stable renters 30%
Owners 49%
Tract context
Occupied units2,117
Renter share51.2%
SVI overall0.17
Poverty rate17.7%
Median income$86,990
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
38
th percentile
Low
Within county
52
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
62
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Columbus and the region
Centroid at 40.0208, -83.0082 · click any tract to drill in
Why Crestview scores 4.5
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
17.7% poverty · this tract
4.4
Supply constraint
$1,269 rent vs county FMR
3.8
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 Crestview compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 17
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 28%Socioeconomic
- 2%Household composition
- 28%Racial/ethnic minority
- 62%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.
- 0%Grade A
- 58%Grade B
- 23%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)
- 119Total filings over 13 yrs
- 0.77%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.5%Peak (2002)
- 7Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 61% over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 59Total filings 2020-21
- 0.8Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.5Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.61×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above 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.
- 8.5%Housing insecurity
- 6.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 10.0%Food insecurity
- 7.3%SNAP enrollment
- 6.4%Transit barriers
- 6.0%No health insurance
- 17.9%Frequent mental distress
- 20.0%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Crestview
Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8/10.
Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.4/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 119 filings here across 13 tracked years.
SNAP participation runs 7.3% against 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity runs 10.0% against 17.8% nationally.
Filings peaked in 2002 at 1.5% of renter households. 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 0.8% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 51st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 2.5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Against average income of $86,990, annual rent is just 18%. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
41% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 39049000500
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39049000500?
Census tract 39049000500 in the Crestview neighborhood scores 4.5/10 (Moderate 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 39049000500?
Median gross rent is $1,269/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 41% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 39049000500?
17.7% of residents in tract 39049000500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,367.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 39049000500?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 17th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 28th, household 2th, minority 28th, housing 62th.
Q5
Is tract 39049000500 considered part of Crestview?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 39049000500 fall within Crestview (neighborhood centroid within 0.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 39049000500?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 119 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 39049000500 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 0.77% of renter households, peaking at 1.5% in 2002. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 39049000500 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 1.61× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran above pre-pandemic norms. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Columbus eviction risk, OH), 2020-2021.
Q8
What share of households in tract 39049000500 struggle to pay rent?
About 8.5% 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. 6.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 39049000500 compare to Columbus overall?
Tract 39049000500 scores 4.5/10, right in line with 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 39049000500 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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