Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Chester Heights Eviction Risk: Lower , Columbus
Tract 39049008400 · Franklin County, OH · pop 4,014 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
39049008400 is a census tract in the Chester Heights area of Grandview Heights, OH. It scores 3/10 for landlords. Population here is 4,014. The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 9%
Stable renters 9%
Owners 82%
Tract context
Occupied units1,804
Renter share18.3%
SVI overall0.05
Poverty rate3.4%
Median income$121,750
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
100
th percentile
Very High
Within county
8
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
31
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Columbus and the region
Centroid at 39.9810, -83.0562 · click any tract to drill in
Why Chester Heights scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Columbus
6.9
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.6
State political climate
Ohio legislature & governorship
2.4
Economic stress
3.4% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$1,209 rent vs county FMR
3.4
Rent control risk
Inherited from Columbus
4.3
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.3
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Columbus
8.6
Housing court bias
Inherited from Columbus
3.9
How Chester Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 5
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 12%Socioeconomic
- 5%Household composition
- 34%Racial/ethnic minority
- 12%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.
- 1%Grade A
- 55%Grade B
- 18%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)
- 107Total filings over 13 yrs
- 1.84%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.9%Peak (2006)
- 8Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 38Total filings 2020-21
- 0.5Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.6Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.79×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Columbus, OH as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Chester Heights. 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.
- 4.5%Housing insecurity
- 3.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 4.6%Food insecurity
- 3.0%SNAP enrollment
- 3.4%Transit barriers
- 3.5%No health insurance
- 12.8%Frequent mental distress
- 18.4%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Chester Heights
Average gross rent is $1,209, 31% below the Grandview Heights average. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.6/10. Cost burden runs 50% here against 41.6% across Franklin County.
Food insecurity runs 4.6% against 17.8% nationally. Against the Franklin County average of 4.4, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.4 points. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8/10.
Severe burden reaches 10%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The filing record is not thin: 107 evictions over 13 years of observation.
Adults with no health insurance runs 3.5% against 11.3% nationally. Filings peaked in 2006 at 2.9% 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 1.8% of renter households face a filing.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 39049008400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39049008400?
Census tract 39049008400 in the Chester Heights neighborhood scores 3/10 (Lower 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 39049008400?
Median gross rent is $1,209/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 50% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 39049008400?
3.4% of residents in tract 39049008400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,014.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 39049008400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 5th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 12th, household 5th, minority 34th, housing 12th.
Q5
Is tract 39049008400 considered part of Chester Heights?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 39049008400 fall within Chester Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 39049008400?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 107 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 39049008400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.84% of renter households, peaking at 2.9% in 2006. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 39049008400 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.79× 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 39049008400 struggle to pay rent?
About 4.5% 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. 3.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 39049008400 compare to Columbus overall?
Tract 39049008400 scores 3/10, 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 39049008400 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.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Columbus
Top eight tracts in Columbus ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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