North Linden Eviction Risk: Moderate , Columbus

SNAP participation runs 35.3% against 15.2% nationally. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10. Food insecurity runs 35.5% against 17.8% nationally.

The severe-burden share is 23%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.9/10.

The poverty rate is 26%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. At $993 a month, rents run 23% under what the rest of Columbus commands.

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8/10. It sits 1.3 points above the Franklin County average of 4.4.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,437 filings here across 13 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2004 at 17.9% of renter households.

This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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. In a typical year about 14.3% 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 9.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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