Fort Wayne Eviction Risk: Moderate

The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.9/10. Severe burden reaches 24%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

SNAP participation runs 31.7% against 15.2% nationally. Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $30,407, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The poverty rate is 30%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.5/10. At $830 a month, rents run 17% under what the rest of Fort Wayne commands.

Cost burden runs 33% here against 38.5% across Allen County. Court records carry 145 eviction filings across 2 observed years.

Against the Allen County average of 3.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.9 points. Filings peaked in 2017 at 14.3% 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 14.0% of renter households face a filing.

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