Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #29,578 of 84,120 nationally
Vassar Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Canton
Tract 39151700600 · Stark County, OH · pop 3,303 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
With a score of $1/10, tract 39151700600 in the Vassar Park neighborhood of Canton ranks in the Elevated tier for landlord eviction risk. The tract is home to 3,303 residents. It lands near the 74th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
About 56% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 16% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $830 monthly, set against $44,344 in average yearly household income, roughly 22% of income at the averages. Renters make up 58% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Risk score
4.7
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 32%
Stable renters 26%
Owners 42%
Tract context
Occupied units1,355
Renter share58.2%
SVI overall0.83
Poverty rate17.8%
Median income$44,344
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
40
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
78
th percentile
High
Within state
74
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Canton and the region
Centroid at 40.8168, -81.3747 · click any tract to drill in
Why Vassar Park scores 4.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Canton
4.7
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.1
State political climate
Ohio legislature & governorship
2.4
Economic stress
17.8% poverty · this tract
4.5
Supply constraint
$830 rent vs county FMR
3.5
Rent control risk
Inherited from Canton
6.4
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Canton
9.3
Housing court bias
Inherited from Canton
7.7
How Vassar Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 83
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 77%Socioeconomic
- 87%Household composition
- 48%Racial/ethnic minority
- 78%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 18%Grade A
- 79%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Eviction filings
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 1,975Total filings over 15 yrs
- 17.02%Avg annual filing rate
- 29.5%Peak (2014)
- 86Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 15 months.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 16.9%Housing insecurity
- 13.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 21.2%Food insecurity
- 21.0%SNAP enrollment
- 11.7%Transit barriers
- 9.7%No health insurance
- 20.4%Frequent mental distress
- 33.9%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Vassar Park
The heaviest input here is tenant organizing strength at 9.3/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Canton eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Stark County average of 5.2 and above the Ohio statewide average of 5.1. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 16.9% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 13.6% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
HOLC surveyors mapped this tract in the 1930s with a dominant grade of B ("Still Desirable"), above the redlined D tier. The grading still shaped decades of lending and development in the surrounding area.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
Frequently asked
About tract 39151700600
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39151700600?
Census tract 39151700600 in the Vassar Park neighborhood scores 4.7/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 39151700600?
Median gross rent is $830/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 56% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 39151700600?
17.8% of residents in tract 39151700600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,303.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 39151700600?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 83th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 77th, household 87th, minority 48th, housing 78th.
Q5
Is tract 39151700600 considered part of Vassar Park?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 39151700600 fall within Vassar Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 39151700600?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 1,975 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 39151700600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 17.02% of renter households, peaking at 29.5% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 39151700600 struggle to pay rent?
About 16.9% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 13.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 39151700600 compare to Canton overall?
Tract 39151700600 scores 4.7/10, higher than the parent city of Canton at 2.8/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Canton eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 39151700600 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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