Within neighborhood
33
th percentile
Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #54,273 of 84,120 nationally
Southwood Park Eviction Risk: Lower , Fort Wayne
Tract 18003003200 · Allen County, IN · pop 5,333 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Census tract 18003003200 covers part of the Southwood Park area of Fort Wayne, IN, and scores 3.7/10 on landlord eviction risk. Against Allen County at 38.5%, about one in five of renters here are cost-burdened.
Risk score
3.7
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 3%
Stable renters 13%
Owners 84%
Tract context
Occupied units1,895
Renter share16.5%
SVI overall0.57
Poverty rate14.2%
Median income$63,375
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
53
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
59
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
55
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Fort Wayne and the region
Centroid at 41.0406, -85.1498 · click any tract to drill in
Why Southwood Park scores 3.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Fort Wayne
3.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.4
State political climate
Indiana legislature & governorship
2.0
Economic stress
14.2% poverty · this tract
3.6
Supply constraint
$1,296 rent vs county FMR
5.8
Rent control risk
Inherited from Fort Wayne
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Fort Wayne
1.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Fort Wayne
2.0
How Southwood Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 57
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 56%Socioeconomic
- 82%Household composition
- 59%Racial/ethnic minority
- 28%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: A: Best
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 19%Grade A
- 17%Grade B
- 0%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.
Eviction filings
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)
- 119Total filings over 2 yrs
- 25.00%Avg annual filing rate
- 29.8%Peak (2018)
- 71Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Southwood Park. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 12.9%Housing insecurity
- 9.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 16.3%Food insecurity
- 9.3%SNAP enrollment
- 8.6%Transit barriers
- 10.1%No health insurance
- 18.1%Frequent mental distress
- 29.8%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Southwood Park
The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.9/10.
At $1,296 a month, rents run 30% over what the rest of Fort Wayne commands. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.5/10. The filing record is not thin: 119 evictions over 2 years of observation.
Filings peaked in 2018 at 29.8% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground A ("Best"). 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 25.0% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 35th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 17% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. It tracks the Allen County average of 3.7 closely.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 18003003200
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18003003200?
Census tract 18003003200 in the Southwood Park neighborhood scores 3.7/10 (Lower tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 18003003200?
Median gross rent is $1,296/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 19% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 18003003200?
14.2% of residents in tract 18003003200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,333.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 18003003200?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 57th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 56th, household 82th, minority 59th, housing 28th.
Q5
Is tract 18003003200 considered part of Southwood Park?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18003003200 fall within Southwood Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 18003003200?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 119 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 18003003200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 25.00% of renter households, peaking at 29.8% in 2018. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 18003003200 struggle to pay rent?
About 12.9% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 9.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 18003003200 compare to Fort Wayne overall?
Tract 18003003200 scores 3.7/10, higher than the parent city of Fort Wayne at 3.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Fort Wayne eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 18003003200 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of A. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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