Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #14,316 of 84,120 nationally
Glen Echo Eviction Risk: Moderate , Columbus
Tract 39049000710 · Franklin County, OH · pop 3,348 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
Census tract 39049000710 belongs to the Glen Echo area of Columbus, Ohio. It is home to 3,348 residents and scores $1/10, an elevated reading for landlords. It lands near the 74th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 45% of renter households, a severe level, and 18% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,085 a month against an average household income of $48,154 a year, roughly 27% of income at the averages. Renters make up 64% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Risk score
5.8
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 29%
Stable renters 35%
Owners 36%
Tract context
Occupied units1,363
Renter share64.1%
SVI overall0.76
Poverty rate32.6%
Median income$48,154
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
85
th percentile
High
Within county
90
th percentile
Very High
Within state
93
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Columbus and the region
Centroid at 40.0192, -82.9891 · click any tract to drill in
Why Glen Echo scores 5.8
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
32.6% poverty · this tract
8.1
Supply constraint
$1,085 rent vs county FMR
2.5
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 Glen Echo compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 76
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 93%Socioeconomic
- 89%Household composition
- 76%Racial/ethnic minority
- 15%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 41%Grade C
- 59%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)
- 929Total filings over 13 yrs
- 12.06%Avg annual filing rate
- 12.1%Peak (2015)
- 94Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 147% over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 488Total filings 2020-21
- 6.3Avg monthly (observed)
- 6.8Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.93×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below 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.
- 22.2%Housing insecurity
- 18.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 30.8%Food insecurity
- 30.0%SNAP enrollment
- 15.7%Transit barriers
- 14.0%No health insurance
- 22.7%Frequent mental distress
- 37.2%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Glen Echo
The score leans hardest on economic stress at 8.1/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Columbus eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Franklin County average of 5.4 and above the Ohio statewide average of 5.1. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
This tract overlaps land the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation redlined in the 1930s, a dominant grade of D ("Hazardous") across 59% of the tract. Redlining cut off mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class blocks, and those areas still tend to carry higher rent burden and eviction filings today.
The tract is White and Black and ranks around the 76th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
Frequently asked
About tract 39049000710
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39049000710?
Census tract 39049000710 in the Glen Echo neighborhood scores 5.8/10 (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 39049000710?
Median gross rent is $1,085/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 45% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 39049000710?
32.6% of residents in tract 39049000710 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,348.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 39049000710?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 76th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 93th, household 89th, minority 76th, housing 15th.
Q5
Is tract 39049000710 considered part of Glen Echo?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 39049000710 fall within Glen Echo (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 39049000710?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 929 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 39049000710 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 12.06% of renter households, peaking at 12.1% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 39049000710 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.93× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Columbus eviction risk, OH), 2020-2021.
Q8
What share of households in tract 39049000710 struggle to pay rent?
About 22.2% 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. 18.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 39049000710 compare to Columbus overall?
Tract 39049000710 scores 5.8/10, higher than the parent city of Columbus at 3.1/10. 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 39049000710 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 59% 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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