Fort Wayne Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 18003011304 · Allen County, IN · pop 5,558 · 52% of tract blocks fall in Fort Wayne
Census tract 18003011304 covers Fort Wayne, home to 5,558 residents. For landlords it grades 5.3/10, a moderate reading. That is riskier than about 50% of US census tracts.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 55% of renter households, a severe level, and 35% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $783 monthly, set against $43,607 in average yearly household income, roughly 22% of income at the averages. About 25% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Fort Wayne and the region
Centroid at 41.0173, -85.0527 · click any tract to drill in
Why Fort Wayne scores 5.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Fort Wayne compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 93
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 82%Socioeconomic
- 98%Household composition
- 70%Racial/ethnic minority
- 83%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)
- 167Total filings over 2 yrs
- 14.60%Avg annual filing rate
- 15.2%Peak (2018)
- 87Filings 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.
- 22.1%Housing insecurity
- 18.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 31.7%Food insecurity
- 23.4%SNAP enrollment
- 15.1%Transit barriers
- 13.4%No health insurance
- 20.2%Frequent mental distress
- 40.0%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Fort Wayne
The heaviest input here is economic stress at 7.8/10. 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.
In CDC survey modeling, about 22.1% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 18.5% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is White and Black and ranks around the 93rd 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.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 18003011304
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Highest-risk tracts in Fort Wayne
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