Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #32,842 of 84,120 nationally
Tuscarawas Avenue-Alexander Square Commerical Historic District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Barberton
Tract 39153510400 · Summit County, OH · pop 3,875 · neighborhood within 1.4 mi
Census tract 39153510400 covers part of the Tuscarawas Avenue-Alexander Square Commerical Historic District area of Barberton, OH, and scores 5/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,875 residents. Severe burden reaches 30%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
5
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 14%
Stable renters 15%
Owners 71%
Tract context
Occupied units1,666
Renter share29.9%
SVI overall0.30
Poverty rate17.7%
Median income$60,500
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
66
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
71
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Barberton and the region
Centroid at 41.0012, -81.6324 · click any tract to drill in
Why Tuscarawas Avenue-Alexander Square Commerical Historic District scores 5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Barberton
5.9
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.5
State political climate
Ohio legislature & governorship
2.4
Economic stress
17.7% poverty · this tract
4.4
Supply constraint
$928 rent vs county FMR
3.2
Rent control risk
Inherited from Barberton
5.3
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.2
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Barberton
8.2
Housing court bias
Inherited from Barberton
6.3
How Tuscarawas Avenue-Alexander Square Commerical Historic District compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 30
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 53%Socioeconomic
- 45%Household composition
- 15%Racial/ethnic minority
- 13%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 37%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)
- 397Total filings over 17 yrs
- 6.87%Avg annual filing rate
- 7.8%Peak (2008)
- 18Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 18% over the past 17 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Tuscarawas Avenue-Alexander Square Commerical Historic District. 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.
- 11.4%Housing insecurity
- 8.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 14.6%Food insecurity
- 12.6%SNAP enrollment
- 8.0%Transit barriers
- 8.2%No health insurance
- 19.1%Frequent mental distress
- 34.4%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Tuscarawas Avenue-Alexander Square Commerical Historic District
The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 8.2/10. Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.2/10. Against Summit County at 41.2%, about half of renters here are cost-burdened.
Running cool, state political climate reads 2.4/10. It sits 0.9 points above the Summit County average of 4.1. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 397 filings here across 17 tracked years.
At $928 a month, rents run 9% over what the rest of Barberton commands. Filings peaked in 2008 at 7.8% of renter households. 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 6.9% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 61% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 3.7/10.
Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. Annual rent works out to 18% of average household income of $60,500.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 39153510400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 39153510400?
Census tract 39153510400 in the Tuscarawas Avenue-Alexander Square Commerical Historic District neighborhood scores 5/10 (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 39153510400?
Median gross rent is $928/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 48% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 39153510400?
17.7% of residents in tract 39153510400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,875.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 39153510400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 30th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 53th, household 45th, minority 15th, housing 13th.
Q5
Is tract 39153510400 considered part of Tuscarawas Avenue-Alexander Square Commerical Historic District?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 39153510400 fall within Tuscarawas Avenue-Alexander Square Commerical Historic District (neighborhood centroid within 1.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 39153510400?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 397 eviction filings across 17 validated years in tract 39153510400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 6.87% of renter households, peaking at 7.8% in 2008. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 39153510400 struggle to pay rent?
About 11.4% 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. 8.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 39153510400 compare to Barberton overall?
Tract 39153510400 scores 5/10, higher than the parent city of Barberton at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Barberton; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 39153510400 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 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.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Barberton
Top eight tracts in Barberton ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
Tract · OH
Downtown Barberton
5.4
/ 10 · Moderate
Tract · OH
Tuscarawas Avenue-Alexander Square Commerical Historic District
5.4
/ 10 · Moderate
Tract · OH
Downtown Barberton
5.1
/ 10 · Moderate
Tract · OH
Lawndale
4.2
/ 10 · Moderate
Tract · OH
Castle Homes
4.1
/ 10 · Moderate
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39153510302
3.7
/ 10 · Low
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