Within parent city
100
th percentile
Very High
Census Tract · Ranked #21,564 of 84,120 nationally
Willoughby Hills Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 39085201000 · Lake County, OH · pop 5,057
Tract 39085201000 sits in Willoughby Hills, OH, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.7/10. Population here is 5,057. The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.5/10.
Risk score
5.7
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 30%
Stable renters 28%
Owners 42%
Tract context
Occupied units2,718
Renter share58.8%
SVI overall0.32
Poverty rate10.3%
Median income$46,930
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
93
th percentile
Very High
Within state
89
th percentile
High
National
74
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Willoughby Hills and the region
Centroid at 41.5814, -81.4631 · click any tract to drill in
Why Willoughby Hills scores 5.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Willoughby Hills
7.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.3
State political climate
Ohio legislature & governorship
2.4
Economic stress
10.3% poverty · this tract
2.6
Supply constraint
$1,014 rent vs county FMR
3.4
Rent control risk
Inherited from Willoughby Hills
6.4
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.4
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Willoughby Hills
9.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Willoughby Hills
5.6
How Willoughby Hills compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 32
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 49%Socioeconomic
- 40%Household composition
- 51%Racial/ethnic minority
- 12%Housing & transportation
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)
- 1,238Total filings over 14 yrs
- 7.28%Avg annual filing rate
- 10.6%Peak (2002)
- 79Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 37% over the past 14 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 12.6%Housing insecurity
- 9.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 15.5%Food insecurity
- 13.8%SNAP enrollment
- 8.5%Transit barriers
- 7.0%No health insurance
- 17.0%Frequent mental distress
- 31.1%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Willoughby Hills
52% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Lake County average of 36.8%. Severe burden reaches 25%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Against the Lake County average of 3.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.9 points. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.4/10.
Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.4/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,238 filings here across 14 tracked years. At $1,014 a month, rents run 9% under what the rest of Willoughby Hills commands.
Filings peaked in 2002 at 10.6% of renter households. In a typical year about 7.3% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 74% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.8/10, 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 housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 39085201000
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39085201000?
Census tract 39085201000 in Willoughby Hills scores 5.7/10 (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 39085201000?
Median gross rent is $1,014/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 52% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 39085201000?
10.3% of residents in tract 39085201000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,057.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 39085201000?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 32th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 49th, household 40th, minority 51th, housing 12th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 39085201000?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 1,238 eviction filings across 14 validated years in tract 39085201000 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 7.28% of renter households, peaking at 10.6% in 2002. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 39085201000 struggle to pay rent?
About 12.6% 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. 9.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 39085201000 compare to Willoughby Hills overall?
Tract 39085201000 scores 5.7/10, higher than the parent city of Willoughby Hills at 4.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Willoughby Hills; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Willoughby Hills
Top eight tracts in Willoughby Hills ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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