South Lorain Eviction Risk: Moderate

The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 8.6/10. Against the Lorain County average of 4.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.8 points. The poverty rate is 28%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Food insecurity runs 32.2% against 17.8% nationally. Running hot, housing-court posture reads 8/10. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.1/10.

47% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Lorain County average of 40.1%. Adults with no health insurance runs 20.8% against 11.3% nationally.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 362 filings here across 11 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2013, when 13.1% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Lorain. 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 8.8% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #19,618 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the OH average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.7 points hotter.

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