East Akron Eviction Risk: Moderate

The severe-burden share is 35%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10.

Food insecurity runs 45.8% against 17.8% nationally. The poverty rate is 44%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Annualized rent equals 45% of average household income of $26,953, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 29.2% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10.

It sits 1.3 points above the Summit County average of 4.1. Running cool, state political climate reads 2.4/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 896 filings here across 17 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2004, when 19.5% of renter households were served.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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. In a typical year about 15.4% of renter households face a filing.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.