Within parent city
95
th percentile
Very High
Census Tract · Ranked #39,308 of 84,120 nationally
Fort Wayne Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 18003011302 · Allen County, IN · pop 5,876 · 98% of tract blocks fall in Fort Wayne
With a score of 4.6/10, tract 18003011302 in Fort Wayne, IN reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Severe burden reaches 36%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
4.6
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 26%
Stable renters 23%
Owners 51%
Tract context
Occupied units2,070
Renter share48.4%
SVI overall0.97
Poverty rate21.4%
Median income$46,992
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
83
th percentile
High
Within state
78
th percentile
High
National
53
th percentile
Moderate
Geographic context
Risk heat across Fort Wayne and the region
Centroid at 41.0280, -85.0980 · click any tract to drill in
Why Fort Wayne scores 4.6
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
21.4% poverty · this tract
5.3
Supply constraint
$866 rent vs county FMR
2.2
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 Fort Wayne compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 97
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 90%Socioeconomic
- 97%Household composition
- 88%Racial/ethnic minority
- 89%Housing & transportation
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)
- 254Total filings over 2 yrs
- 12.87%Avg annual filing rate
- 15.8%Peak (2018)
- 156Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 19.6%Housing insecurity
- 14.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 30.6%Food insecurity
- 18.4%SNAP enrollment
- 13.5%Transit barriers
- 14.0%No health insurance
- 18.1%Frequent mental distress
- 37.3%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Fort Wayne
Against Allen County at 38.5%, 53% of renters here are cost-burdened. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.
On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.9/10. Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.5/10. Food insecurity runs 30.6% against 17.8% nationally.
The poverty rate is 21%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 254 filings here across 2 tracked years. Against the Allen County average of 3.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.9 points.
At $866 a month, rents run 13% under what the rest of Fort Wayne commands. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 14.3% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.
Filings peaked in 2018 at 15.8% of renter households. In a typical year about 12.9% 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.
Frequently asked
About tract 18003011302
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18003011302?
Census tract 18003011302 in Fort Wayne scores 4.6/10 (Moderate 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 18003011302?
Median gross rent is $866/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 53% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 18003011302?
21.4% of residents in tract 18003011302 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,876.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 18003011302?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 97th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 90th, household 97th, minority 88th, housing 89th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 18003011302?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 254 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 18003011302 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 12.87% of renter households, peaking at 15.8% in 2018. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 18003011302 struggle to pay rent?
About 19.6% 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. 14.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 18003011302 compare to Fort Wayne overall?
Tract 18003011302 scores 4.6/10, 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.
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