La La Land Eviction Risk: Moderate , Youngstown

The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10. SNAP participation runs 41.7% against 15.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 50%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

31% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. At $447 a month, rents run 39% under what the rest of Youngstown commands.

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 25.2% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. This is renter territory: 68% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.6/10. It sits 1.4 points above the Mahoning County average of 4.5. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 296 filings here across 7 tracked years.

Filings peaked in 2009 at 6.6% of renter households.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.