North Highhlands Eviction Risk: Moderate , Fort Wayne

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.9/10. Against Allen County at 38.5%, about half of renters here are cost-burdened.

Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.5/10. The poverty rate is 26%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. 13% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Court records carry 125 eviction filings across 2 observed years. It sits 0.9 points above the Allen County average of 3.7.

The worst year on record was 2017, when 11.5% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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. In a typical year about 10.9% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 53% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

Average gross rent is $968, close to the Fort Wayne average. Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $50,694. 36% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.