Forest Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Columbus

The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10. Severe burden reaches 23%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

The poverty rate is 34%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Running hot, economic stress reads 8.4/10. Housing insecurity runs 30.1% against 14.2% nationally.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 23.4% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.7/10.

Average gross rent is $971, 25% below the Columbus average. Against the Franklin County average of 4.4, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points. The filing record is not thin: 4,409 evictions over 13 years of observation.

Filings peaked in 2002 at 21.4% of renter households. In a typical year about 20.0% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #21,564 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the OH average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.