Fort Wayne Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 18003011303 · Allen County, IN · pop 2,272 · 71% of tract blocks fall in Fort Wayne
Census tract 18003011303 runs through Fort Wayne. With 2,272 residents, it scores 5.1/10 for landlords. That is riskier than roughly 43% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
40% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 14% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $643 monthly, set against $39,464 in average yearly household income, roughly 20% of income at the averages. Renters make up 56% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Fort Wayne and the region
Centroid at 41.0419, -85.0696 · click any tract to drill in
Why Fort Wayne scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Fort Wayne compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 94
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 91%Socioeconomic
- 99%Household composition
- 80%Racial/ethnic minority
- 63%Housing & transportation
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)
- 62Total filings over 2 yrs
- 8.10%Avg annual filing rate
- 10.2%Peak (2018)
- 39Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 27.0%Housing insecurity
- 22.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 42.1%Food insecurity
- 31.9%SNAP enrollment
- 19.5%Transit barriers
- 18.3%No health insurance
- 21.5%Frequent mental distress
- 42.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Fort Wayne
The score leans hardest on economic stress at 8.4/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Fort Wayne eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Allen County average of 4.6 and above the Indiana statewide average of 4.7. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is Black and Asian and ranks around the 94th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 62 eviction filings here over 2 tracked years, with about 8.1% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 10.2% of renter households in 2018.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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Highest-risk tracts in Fort Wayne
Top eight tracts in Fort Wayne ranked by composite eviction-risk score.