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Summit Plain Eviction Risk: Moderate , Columbus

Tract 39049001902 · Franklin County, OH · pop 4,146 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi

Tract 39049001902 sits in the Summit Plain area of Columbus eviction risk, OH, carrying an eviction-risk score of 4/10. This is renter territory: 88% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Risk score
4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 27% Stable renters 61% Owners 12%
Tract context
Occupied units2,871
Renter share88.0%
SVI overall0.17
Poverty rate6.4%
Median income$60,850

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Summit Plain
Moderate
Within parent city
28 th percentile
Rank, 28th percentileLowHigh
#171 of 238 tracts In Columbus
Low
Within county
44 th percentile
Rank, 44th percentileLowHigh
#183 of 328 tracts In Franklin County
Moderate
Within state
52 th percentile
Rank, 52nd percentileLowHigh
#1,506 of 3,162 tracts In Ohio
Moderate
Geographic context

Risk heat across Columbus and the region

Centroid at 39.9892, -83.0475 · click any tract to drill in

Why Summit Plain scores 4

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
6.4% poverty · this tract
1.6
Supply constraint
$1,150 rent vs county FMR
3.0
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 Summit Plain compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Summit Plain risk score vs. parent city / county / state4.0This tracttract 0019024.3Columbusparent city4.4Countyavg tract in county4.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 17

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. 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)

  • 365Total filings over 13 yrs
  • 2.23%Avg annual filing rate
  • 3.5%Peak (2005)
  • 17Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2002 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 39049001902
Filings dropped 53% over the past 13 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 131Total filings 2020-21
  • 1.7Avg monthly (observed)
  • 1.5Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 1.15×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Summit Plain

Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10. Cost burden runs 31% here against 41.6% across Franklin County. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.6/10.

Disability prevalence runs 15.9% against 31.5% nationally. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8/10. SNAP participation runs 4.2% against 15.2% nationally.

Severe burden reaches 12%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The filing record is not thin: 365 evictions over 13 years of observation. Average gross rent is $1,150, 11% below the Columbus average.

The worst year on record was 2005, when 3.5% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 39049001902

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39049001902?

Census tract 39049001902 in the Summit Plain neighborhood scores 4/10 (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 39049001902?

Median gross rent is $1,150/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 31% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 39049001902?

6.4% of residents in tract 39049001902 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,146.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 39049001902?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 17th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 32th, household 1th, minority 24th, housing 59th.
Q5

Is tract 39049001902 considered part of Summit Plain?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 39049001902 fall within Summit Plain (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 39049001902?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 365 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 39049001902 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.23% of renter households, peaking at 3.5% in 2005. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 39049001902 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 1.15× 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 39049001902 struggle to pay rent?

About 6.7% 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. 4.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9

How does tract 39049001902 compare to Columbus overall?

Tract 39049001902 scores 4/10, 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 39049001902 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 15% 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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