Elkhart Eviction Risk: Moderate

Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.7/10. It sits 1.5 points above the Elkhart County average of 3.9.

Running cool, state political climate reads 2/10. Severe burden reaches 15%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The poverty rate is 23%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Food insecurity runs 24.8% against 17.8% nationally. On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the IN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

41% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.