North Highhlands Eviction Risk: Moderate , Fort Wayne
Tract 18003000900 · Allen County, IN · pop 2,948 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Census tract 18003000900 belongs to the North Highhlands area of Fort Wayne, Indiana. It is home to 2,948 residents and scores 5.2/10, a moderate reading for landlords. It lands near the 46th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
About 49% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 13% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $968 a month while the average household earns $50,694 a year, roughly 23% of income at the averages. Renters make up 36% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Fort Wayne and the region
Centroid at 41.0882, -85.1690 · click any tract to drill in
Why North Highhlands scores 5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow North Highhlands compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 46
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 76%Socioeconomic
- 17%Household composition
- 39%Racial/ethnic minority
- 29%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.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 40%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)
- 125Total filings over 2 yrs
- 10.93%Avg annual filing rate
- 11.5%Peak (2017)
- 59Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 15.4%Housing insecurity
- 12.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 21.6%Food insecurity
- 13.7%SNAP enrollment
- 11.6%Transit barriers
- 11.9%No health insurance
- 22.2%Frequent mental distress
- 34.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in North Highhlands
The heaviest input here is economic stress at 6.6/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Fort Wayne eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Allen County average of 4.6 and above the Indiana statewide average of 4.7. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 125 eviction filings here over 2 tracked years, with about 10.9% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 11.5% of renter households in 2017.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 46th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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