Highland Square Eviction Risk: Moderate , Akron

Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10. Severe burden reaches 15%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.4/10.

Running hot, court filing pressure reads 7.5/10. The filing record is not thin: 472 evictions over 17 years of observation. Food insecurity runs 10.7% against 17.8% nationally.

It sits 0.6 points above the Summit County average of 4.1. The worst year on record was 2014, when 5.9% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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 4.1% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 55% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $61,484, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

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