Brittain Eviction Risk: Moderate , Akron

Running cool, state political climate reads 2.4/10. 14% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 7.5/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 704 filings here across 17 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2016, when 6.1% 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 6.3% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 47th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. 38% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

It tracks the Summit County average of 4.1 closely. Average gross rent is $966, close to the Akron average.

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.