North Hill Eviction Risk: Moderate , Akron

The clearest offset is supply constraint at 1.3/10. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10.

SNAP participation runs 31.3% against 15.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 30%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

At $717 a month, rents run 25% under what the rest of Akron commands. 17% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. It sits 1.3 points above the Summit County average of 4.1.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.4/10. Housing insecurity runs 23.3% against 14.2% nationally. Court records carry 859 eviction filings across 17 observed years.

Filings peaked in 2002 at 12.1% of renter households. 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 7.8% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.8/10.

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