SoDo District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Akron

Food insecurity runs 45.0% against 17.8% nationally. The poverty rate is 52%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Annualized rent equals 47% of average household income of $16,393, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. 26% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10. 81% 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. At $636 a month, rents run 33% under what the rest of Akron commands.

Disability prevalence runs 49.6% against 31.5% nationally. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. It sits 1.3 points above the Summit County average of 4.1.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 761 filings here across 17 tracked years. Cost burden runs 45% here against 41.2% across Summit County. The worst year on record was 2006, when 7.3% of renter households were served.

This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Akron. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 5.2% of renter households face a filing.

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.