South End Eviction Risk: Elevated , Kent

70% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well clear of the Portage County average of 46.4%. It sits 2.8 points above the Portage County average of 4.5.

What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.5/10. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.9/10.

The poverty rate is 32%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 8.8/10.

At $771 a month, rents run 22% under what the rest of Kent commands. The filing record is not thin: 55 evictions over 7 years of observation.

Filings peaked in 2003 at 2.9% of renter households. In a typical year about 1.3% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #11,153 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the OH average is 4.2, so this tract runs 3.1 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

Annual rent works out to 31% of average household income of $29,792.

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