Castle Homes Eviction Risk: Moderate , Akron

The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10. 15% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.4/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 7.5/10. Court records carry 1,750 eviction filings across 17 observed years.

Against the Summit County average of 4.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.7 points. The worst year on record was 2005, when 15.6% of renter households were served. At $876 a month, rents run 8% under what the rest of Akron commands.

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 10.8% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 58th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 6.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 18% of average household income of $60,031, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. 38% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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