Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #28,095 of 84,120 nationally
Hilltop Eviction Risk: Moderate , Columbus
Tract 39049008321 · Franklin County, OH · pop 3,248 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
Tract 39049008321 sits in the Hilltop area of Columbus eviction risk, OH, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.3/10. It is home to 3,248 residents. The severe-burden share is 25%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Risk score
5.3
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 14%
Stable renters 22%
Owners 64%
Tract context
Occupied units1,214
Renter share35.3%
SVI overall0.79
Poverty rate17.4%
Median income$54,231
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
55
th percentile
Elevated
Within county
65
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
75
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Columbus and the region
Centroid at 39.9365, -83.0826 · click any tract to drill in
Why Hilltop scores 5.3
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
17.4% poverty · this tract
4.4
Supply constraint
$1,109 rent vs county FMR
2.7
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 Hilltop compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 79
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 86%Socioeconomic
- 99%Household composition
- 67%Racial/ethnic minority
- 17%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 6%Grade B
- 6%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)
- 206Total filings over 13 yrs
- 6.12%Avg annual filing rate
- 7.0%Peak (2015)
- 27Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 80% over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 126Total filings 2020-21
- 1.6Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.3Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.29×Ratio to 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.
- 14.8%Housing insecurity
- 10.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 20.8%Food insecurity
- 17.7%SNAP enrollment
- 10.5%Transit barriers
- 12.1%No health insurance
- 19.8%Frequent mental distress
- 34.4%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Hilltop
Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8/10. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.4/10.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 206 filings here across 13 tracked years. Against the Franklin County average of 4.4, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.9 points.
At $1,109 a month, rents run 14% under what the rest of Columbus commands. The worst year on record was 2015, when 7.0% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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 6.1% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #28,095 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.1/10, 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 39049008321
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39049008321?
Census tract 39049008321 in the Hilltop neighborhood scores 5.3/10 (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 39049008321?
Median gross rent is $1,109/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 38% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 39049008321?
17.4% of residents in tract 39049008321 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,248.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 39049008321?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 79th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 86th, household 99th, minority 67th, housing 17th.
Q5
Is tract 39049008321 considered part of Hilltop?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 39049008321 fall within Hilltop (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 39049008321?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 206 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 39049008321 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 6.12% of renter households, peaking at 7.0% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 39049008321 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 1.29× 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 39049008321 struggle to pay rent?
About 14.8% 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. 10.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 39049008321 compare to Columbus overall?
Tract 39049008321 scores 5.3/10, 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.
Q10
Was tract 39049008321 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 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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