Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #52,479 of 84,120 nationally
Trinity Eviction Risk: Lower , Fort Wayne
Tract 18003000800 · Allen County, IN · pop 4,085 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
Tract 18003000800 sits in the Trinity area of Fort Wayne eviction risk, IN, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3.8/10. It is home to 4,085 residents. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.
Risk score
3.8
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 8%
Stable renters 22%
Owners 70%
Tract context
Occupied units2,007
Renter share30.0%
SVI overall0.44
Poverty rate11.8%
Median income$52,983
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
55
th percentile
Elevated
Within county
62
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
58
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Fort Wayne and the region
Centroid at 41.0967, -85.1623 · click any tract to drill in
Why Trinity scores 3.8
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
11.8% poverty · this tract
3.0
Supply constraint
$659 rent vs county FMR
1.0
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 Trinity compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 44
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 41%Socioeconomic
- 69%Household composition
- 39%Racial/ethnic minority
- 34%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 19%Grade B
- 46%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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)
- 118Total filings over 2 yrs
- 9.15%Avg annual filing rate
- 10.7%Peak (2018)
- 69Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
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.
- 13.2%Housing insecurity
- 10.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 17.2%Food insecurity
- 10.6%SNAP enrollment
- 9.1%Transit barriers
- 9.9%No health insurance
- 19.6%Frequent mental distress
- 32.7%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Trinity
Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10. Average gross rent is $659, 34% below the Fort Wayne average. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.9/10.
Against Allen County at 38.5%, 28% of renters here are cost-burdened. Severe burden reaches 20%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 118 filings here across 2 tracked years.
The worst year on record was 2018, when 10.7% of renter households were served. 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 9.2% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 38th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 4.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Against average income of $52,983, annual rent is just 15%. It tracks the Allen County average of 3.7 closely. 30% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
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 18003000800
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18003000800?
Census tract 18003000800 in the Trinity neighborhood scores 3.8/10 (Lower 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 18003000800?
Median gross rent is $659/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 28% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 18003000800?
11.8% of residents in tract 18003000800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,085.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 18003000800?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 44th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 41th, household 69th, minority 39th, housing 34th.
Q5
Is tract 18003000800 considered part of Trinity?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18003000800 fall within Trinity (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 18003000800?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 118 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 18003000800 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 9.15% of renter households, peaking at 10.7% in 2018. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 18003000800 struggle to pay rent?
About 13.2% 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. 10.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 18003000800 compare to Fort Wayne overall?
Tract 18003000800 scores 3.8/10, 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.
Q9
Was tract 18003000800 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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