Wells Street Eviction Risk: Moderate , Fort Wayne
Tract 18003000500 · Allen County, IN · pop 2,999 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
With a score of 4.8/10, tract 18003000500 in the Wells Street neighborhood of Fort Wayne ranks in the Moderate tier for landlord eviction risk. The tract is home to 2,999 residents. On the national scale it ranks #57,033 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
About 40% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a high level, and 24% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $954 monthly, set against $45,878 in average yearly household income, roughly 25% of income at the averages. About 53% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Fort Wayne and the region
Centroid at 41.0952, -85.1373 · click any tract to drill in
Why Wells Street scores 4.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Wells Street compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 84
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 89%Socioeconomic
- 31%Household composition
- 58%Racial/ethnic minority
- 93%Housing & transportation
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
- 5%Grade B
- 47%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.
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)
- 174Total filings over 2 yrs
- 13.23%Avg annual filing rate
- 15.8%Peak (2018)
- 104Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Wells Street. 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.
- 17.3%Housing insecurity
- 14.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 24.9%Food insecurity
- 17.2%SNAP enrollment
- 12.6%Transit barriers
- 12.2%No health insurance
- 21.1%Frequent mental distress
- 36.1%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Wells Street
The heaviest input here is economic stress at 5.9/10. 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 about the same as the Allen County average of 4.6 and in line with the Indiana statewide average of 4.7. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 174 eviction filings here over 2 tracked years, with about 13.2% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 15.8% of renter households in 2018.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 84th 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.
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