Downtown Elyria Eviction Risk: Moderate

The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10. Cost burden runs 57% here against 40.1% across Lorain County.

The poverty rate is 43%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Average gross rent is $583, 36% below the Elyria average. Disability prevalence runs 51.2% against 31.5% nationally.

This is renter territory: 82% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.1/10.

It sits 1.3 points above the Lorain County average of 4.1. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 17.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Nationally it ranks #24,859 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.7/10, 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 housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

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