Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #42,813 of 84,120 nationally
South Akron Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 39153504700 · Summit County, OH · pop 4,507 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi
Census tract 39153504700 covers part of the South Akron area of Akron, OH, and scores 4.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10.
Risk score
4.4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 14%
Stable renters 29%
Owners 57%
Tract context
Occupied units1,834
Renter share43.9%
SVI overall0.49
Poverty rate13.1%
Median income$67,793
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
17
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
59
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
60
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Akron and the region
Centroid at 41.0433, -81.5136 · click any tract to drill in
Why South Akron scores 4.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Akron
5.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.5
State political climate
Ohio legislature & governorship
2.4
Economic stress
13.1% poverty · this tract
3.3
Supply constraint
$1,136 rent vs county FMR
5.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Akron
1.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
4.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Akron
4.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Akron
4.0
How South Akron compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 49
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 56%Socioeconomic
- 49%Household composition
- 60%Racial/ethnic minority
- 32%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: A: Best
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 48%Grade A
- 44%Grade B
- 4%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Eviction filings
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 535Total filings over 17 yrs
- 6.04%Avg annual filing rate
- 8.0%Peak (2014)
- 43Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 126% over the past 17 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within South Akron. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 15.2%Housing insecurity
- 11.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 18.1%Food insecurity
- 15.5%SNAP enrollment
- 9.8%Transit barriers
- 8.7%No health insurance
- 20.1%Frequent mental distress
- 32.6%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in South Akron
The severe-burden share is 19%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Cost burden runs roughly one in three here against 41.2% across Summit County.
Running cool, state political climate reads 2.4/10. At $1,136 a month, rents run 19% over what the rest of Akron commands.
Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 7.5/10. Court records carry 535 eviction filings across 17 observed years.
Filings peaked in 2014 at 8.0% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground A ("Best"). 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 6.0% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #42,813 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 5.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
It tracks the Summit County average of 4.1 closely. Annual rent works out to 20% of average household income of $67,793.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 39153504700
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39153504700?
Census tract 39153504700 in the South Akron neighborhood scores 4.4/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 39153504700?
Median gross rent is $1,136/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 33% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 39153504700?
13.1% of residents in tract 39153504700 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,507.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 39153504700?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 49th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 56th, household 49th, minority 60th, housing 32th.
Q5
Is tract 39153504700 considered part of South Akron?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 39153504700 fall within South Akron (neighborhood centroid within 1.0 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 39153504700?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 535 eviction filings across 17 validated years in tract 39153504700 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 6.04% of renter households, peaking at 8.0% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 39153504700 struggle to pay rent?
About 15.2% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 11.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 39153504700 compare to Akron overall?
Tract 39153504700 scores 4.4/10, higher than the parent city of Akron at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Akron eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 39153504700 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of A. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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5.4
/ 10 · Moderate
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5.4
/ 10 · Moderate
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5.4
/ 10 · Moderate
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5.4
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