Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #48,956 of 84,120 nationally
Olde Towne East Eviction Risk: Moderate , Columbus
Tract 39049003800 · Franklin County, OH · pop 2,396 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Census tract 39049003800 covers part of the Olde Towne East area of Columbus, OH, and scores 4/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,396 residents. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10.
Risk score
4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 24%
Stable renters 28%
Owners 48%
Tract context
Occupied units1,196
Renter share52.3%
SVI overall0.24
Poverty rate8.3%
Median income$72,006
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
30
th percentile
Low
Within county
45
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
52
th percentile
Moderate
Geographic context
Risk heat across Columbus and the region
Centroid at 39.9629, -82.9739 · click any tract to drill in
Why Olde Towne East scores 4
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
8.3% poverty · this tract
2.1
Supply constraint
$1,025 rent vs county FMR
2.1
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 Olde Towne East compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 24
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 33%Socioeconomic
- 2%Household composition
- 41%Racial/ethnic minority
- 67%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 10%Grade B
- 89%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)
- 847Total filings over 13 yrs
- 9.75%Avg annual filing rate
- 15.0%Peak (2003)
- 30Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 66% over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 208Total filings 2020-21
- 2.7Avg monthly (observed)
- 3.5Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.76×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.
- 10.9%Housing insecurity
- 8.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 12.0%Food insecurity
- 9.2%SNAP enrollment
- 7.2%Transit barriers
- 6.8%No health insurance
- 17.5%Frequent mental distress
- 20.9%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Olde Towne East
22% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8/10.
On the softer side, economic stress reads 2.1/10. Average gross rent is $1,025, 21% below the Columbus average. Cost burden runs 46% here against 41.6% across Franklin County.
Court records carry 847 eviction filings across 13 observed years. The worst year on record was 2003, when 15.0% of renter households were served.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 9.8% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 42nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 3.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $72,006, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
It tracks the Franklin County average of 4.4 closely.
Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.
Frequently asked
About tract 39049003800
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39049003800?
Census tract 39049003800 in the Olde Towne East 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 39049003800?
Median gross rent is $1,025/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 46% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 39049003800?
8.3% of residents in tract 39049003800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,396.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 39049003800?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 24th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 33th, household 2th, minority 41th, housing 67th.
Q5
Is tract 39049003800 considered part of Olde Towne East?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 39049003800 fall within Olde Towne East (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 39049003800?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 847 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 39049003800 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 9.75% of renter households, peaking at 15.0% in 2003. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 39049003800 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.76× 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 39049003800 struggle to pay rent?
About 10.9% 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. 8.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 39049003800 compare to Columbus overall?
Tract 39049003800 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 39049003800 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. 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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