South End Eviction Risk: Moderate , Steubenville

The severe-burden share is 25%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The poverty rate is 36%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.7/10.

Cost burden runs 48% here against 39.7% across Jefferson County. Against the Jefferson County average of 3.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points. SNAP participation runs 28.2% against 15.2% nationally.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.4/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 16.4% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. That is riskier than roughly 70% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the OH average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

Average gross rent is $795, close to the Steubenville average. Annual rent works out to 31% of average household income of $30,324.

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