Laurel Ridge Eviction Risk: Lower

Cost burden runs 44% against 28.5% citywide, putting Laurel Ridge 15.3% over its own city. At $1,458 a month, rents sit 46% over what the rest of Fort Wayne commands.

Pulling the other way is rent-regulation exposure, at 1/10. On the softer side is economic stress, at 1/10. Well under the midpoint is eviction-process difficulty, at 1.5/10.

The voucher gap is 21.6%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which shows up as churn rather than arrears. Court records for this tract carry 6 eviction filings. SNAP participation is 4.4% of households versus 15.2% nationally.

Filing activity peaked in 2018 at 4.5% of renter households. Food insecurity affects 9.0% of adults, 8.8 points below the national rate.

Among the 45 mapped neighborhoods of Fort Wayne, it ranks #32 by risk, the lower third. Judgments average 2.8% of renter households a year, the share of filings that actually convert to an order.

At 4% renter-occupied, this is predominantly owner territory, and rental comps have to be drawn from further out.

One tract means one number: 3/10 applies directly to any address inside the boundary. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.