North Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Wheeling

The poverty rate is 37%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. Disability prevalence runs 49.1% against 31.5% nationally.

This is renter territory: 71% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. On the softer side, tenant-organizing strength reads 1.5/10.

The severe-burden share is 15%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. At $618 a month, rents run 22% under what the rest of Wheeling commands. It sits 1.0 points above the Ohio County average of 3.6.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 18.1% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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. Nationally it ranks #39,308 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.