Swinney Eviction Risk: Moderate , Fort Wayne

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.9/10. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.5/10. Cost burden runs 46% here against 38.5% across Allen County.

Food insecurity runs 29.1% against 17.8% nationally. 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 172 eviction filings across 2 observed years.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 17.0% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. It sits 0.7 points above the Allen County average of 3.7. The worst year on record was 2018, when 21.0% of renter households were served.

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 19.9% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 49th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.2/10. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.