Sixth Street Historic District Eviction Risk: Elevated , Portsmouth

80% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Annualized rent equals 34% of average household income of $21,580, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 8.5/10. The poverty rate is 30%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Against the Scioto County average of 4.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.7 points.

Severe burden reaches 18%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.8/10.

Disability prevalence runs 44.3% against 31.5% nationally. SNAP participation runs 26.2% against 15.2% nationally.

At $603 a month, rents run 19% under what the rest of Portsmouth commands. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 361 filings here across 12 tracked years.

39% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Scioto County average of 43.7%. The worst year on record was 2003, when 4.6% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

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