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Neighborhood · Ranked #21,564 of 84,120 nationally

Franklinton Eviction Risk: Moderate , Columbus

Tract 39049005001 · Franklin County, OH · pop 1,648 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi

39049005001 is a census tract in the Franklinton area of Columbus, OH. It scores 5.7/10 for landlords. It is home to 1,648 residents. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 9.5/10.

Risk score
5.7
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 32% Stable renters 30% Owners 38%
Tract context
Occupied units647
Renter share61.8%
SVI overall0.85
Poverty rate38.1%
Median income$47,396

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#3 of 5 tracts In Franklinton
Moderate
Within parent city
87 th percentile
Rank, 87th percentileLowHigh
#33 of 238 tracts In Columbus
High
Within county
94 th percentile
Rank, 94th percentileLowHigh
#20 of 328 tracts In Franklin County
Very High
Within state
89 th percentile
Rank, 89th percentileLowHigh
#353 of 3,162 tracts In Ohio
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Columbus and the region

Centroid at 39.9549, -83.0220 · click any tract to drill in

Why Franklinton scores 5.7

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
38.1% poverty · this tract
9.5
Supply constraint
$870 rent vs county FMR
1.0
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 Franklinton compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Franklinton risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 5.75.7This tracttract 005001Columbus: 4.34.3Columbusparent cityCounty: 4.44.4Countyavg tract in countyState: 4.24.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 85

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

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.

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

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 280Total filings 2020-21
  • 3.6Avg monthly (observed)
  • 5.6Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.65×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline2020-01-01: 4 filings (0.60× baseline)2020-02-01: 4 filings (0.71× baseline)2020-03-01: 5 filings (0.63× baseline)2020-04-01: 1 filings (0.20× baseline)2020-05-01: 1 filings (0.19× baseline)2020-06-01: 3 filings (0.47× baseline)2020-07-01: 4 filings (0.75× baseline)2020-08-01: 3 filings (0.35× baseline)2020-09-01: 4 filings (0.67× baseline)2020-10-01: 4 filings (0.71× baseline)2020-11-01: 2 filings (0.43× baseline)2020-12-01: 5 filings (1.15× baseline)2021-01-01: 2 filings (0.30× baseline)2021-02-01: 1 filings (0.18× baseline)2021-03-01: 2 filings (0.25× baseline)2021-04-01: 5 filings (1.00× baseline)2021-05-01: 5 filings (0.94× baseline)2021-06-01: 5 filings (0.79× baseline)2021-07-01: 5 filings (0.94× baseline)2021-08-01: 1 filings (0.12× baseline)2021-09-01: 4 filings (0.67× baseline)2021-10-01: 4 filings (0.71× baseline)2021-11-01: 1 filings (0.21× baseline)2021-12-01: 7 filings (1.62× baseline)2022-01-01: 5 filings (0.75× baseline)2022-02-01: 3 filings (0.53× baseline)2022-03-01: 3 filings (0.38× baseline)2022-04-01: 3 filings (0.60× baseline)2022-05-01: 3 filings (0.56× baseline)2022-06-01: 5 filings (0.79× baseline)2022-07-01: 4 filings (0.75× baseline)2022-08-01: 2 filings (0.23× baseline)2022-09-01: 4 filings (0.67× baseline)2022-10-01: 2 filings (0.35× baseline)2022-11-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2022-12-01: 1 filings (0.23× baseline)2023-01-01: 2 filings (0.30× baseline)2023-02-01: 1 filings (0.18× baseline)2023-03-01: 2 filings (0.25× baseline)2023-04-01: 2 filings (0.40× baseline)2023-05-01: 11 filings (2.06× baseline)2023-06-01: 2 filings (0.32× baseline)2023-07-01: 2 filings (0.38× baseline)2023-08-01: 1 filings (0.12× baseline)2023-09-01: 1 filings (0.17× baseline)2023-10-01: 6 filings (1.06× baseline)2023-11-01: 4 filings (0.86× baseline)2023-12-01: 2 filings (0.46× baseline)2024-01-01: 5 filings (0.75× baseline)2024-02-01: 7 filings (1.23× baseline)2024-03-01: 3 filings (0.38× baseline)2024-04-01: 3 filings (0.60× baseline)2024-05-01: 3 filings (0.56× baseline)2024-06-01: 8 filings (1.26× baseline)2024-07-01: 2 filings (0.38× baseline)2024-08-01: 7 filings (0.81× baseline)2024-09-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2024-10-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2024-11-01: 4 filings (0.86× baseline)2024-12-01: 5 filings (1.15× baseline)2025-01-01: 3 filings (0.45× baseline)2025-02-01: 5 filings (0.88× baseline)2025-03-01: 1 filings (0.13× baseline)2025-04-01: 4 filings (0.80× baseline)2025-05-01: 6 filings (1.13× baseline)2025-06-01: 5 filings (0.79× baseline)2025-07-01: 6 filings (1.13× baseline)2025-08-01: 4 filings (0.46× baseline)2025-09-01: 8 filings (1.33× baseline)2025-10-01: 3 filings (0.53× baseline)2025-11-01: 5 filings (1.07× baseline)2025-12-01: 5 filings (1.15× baseline)2026-01-01: 7 filings (70.00× baseline)2026-02-01: 10 filings (100.00× baseline)2026-03-01: 3 filings (30.00× baseline)2026-04-01: 5 filings (50.00× baseline)2026-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)

Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Columbus, OH as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Franklinton. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

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 Franklinton

The severe-burden share is 28%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The poverty rate is 38%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10. Average gross rent is $870, 33% below the Columbus average.

Cost burden runs about half here against 41.6% across Franklin County. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10.

It sits 1.3 points above the Franklin County average of 4.4. SNAP participation runs 26.5% against 15.2% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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. On the national scale it lands near the 74th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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 39049005001

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39049005001?

Census tract 39049005001 in the Franklinton neighborhood scores 5.7/10 (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 39049005001?

Median gross rent is $870/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 51% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 39049005001?

38.1% of residents in tract 39049005001 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,648.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 39049005001?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 85th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 74th, household 83th, minority 50th, housing 89th.
Q5

Is tract 39049005001 considered part of Franklinton?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 39049005001 fall within Franklinton (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 39049005001 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.65× 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.
Q7

What share of households in tract 39049005001 struggle to pay rent?

About 19.1% 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. 15.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 39049005001 compare to Columbus overall?

Tract 39049005001 scores 5.7/10, higher 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.
Q9

Was tract 39049005001 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. 92% 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.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Columbus

Top eight tracts in Columbus ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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