Ridgewood Historic District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Canton

Cost burden runs 49% here against 38.2% across Stark County. 22% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 2/10.

Against the Stark County average of 4.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points. Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 7.7/10.

At $739 a month, rents run 13% under what the rest of Canton commands. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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.

Nationally it ranks #24,859 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.5/10, 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 socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 24% of average household income of $37,722.

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