New Kirkwood Park Eviction Risk: Lower , Fort Wayne
Tract 18003003400 · Allen County, IN · pop 4,587 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
With a score of 3.1/10, tract 18003003400 in the New Kirkwood Park area of Fort Wayne, IN reads lower for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 4,587. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Fort Wayne and the region
Centroid at 41.1039, -85.1079 · click any tract to drill in
Why New Kirkwood Park scores 3.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow New Kirkwood Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 49
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 57%Socioeconomic
- 55%Household composition
- 43%Racial/ethnic minority
- 34%Housing & transportation
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.
- 7%Grade A
- 19%Grade B
- 29%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.
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)
- 94Total filings over 2 yrs
- 8.58%Avg annual filing rate
- 9.9%Peak (2018)
- 54Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within New Kirkwood Park. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 9.8%Housing insecurity
- 7.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 11.7%Food insecurity
- 6.4%SNAP enrollment
- 6.8%Transit barriers
- 7.4%No health insurance
- 17.3%Frequent mental distress
- 27.0%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in New Kirkwood Park
Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.9/10. 28% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well below the Allen County average of 38.5%. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.5/10.
SNAP participation runs 6.4% against 15.2% nationally. Court records carry 94 eviction filings across 2 observed years.
8% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Against the Allen County average of 3.7, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.6 points.
Filings peaked in 2018 at 9.9% of renter households. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Fort Wayne. 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 8.6% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 22% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Average gross rent is $1,065, close to the Fort Wayne average. Annual rent works out to 20% of average household income of $65,208.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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