Fort Wayne Eviction Risk: Moderate

Severe burden reaches 34%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Food insecurity runs 39.7% against 17.8% nationally. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.9/10. Annualized rent equals 36% of average household income of $36,012, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

The poverty rate is 31%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.5/10.

Housing insecurity runs 29.1% against 14.2% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 223 filings here across 2 tracked years. It sits 0.9 points above the Allen County average of 3.7.

Filings peaked in 2018 at 26.6% 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 25.8% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 53% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.