Elkhart Eviction Risk: Moderate

The poverty rate is 42%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Food insecurity runs 36.7% against 17.8% nationally. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.9/10.

Severe burden reaches 22%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.7/10. Cost burden runs roughly one in two here against 40.7% across Elkhart County.

It sits 1.5 points above the Elkhart County average of 3.9. SNAP participation runs 28.5% against 15.2% nationally. Average gross rent is $800, 20% below the Elkhart average.

On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.7/10. 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. Annual rent works out to 29% of average household income of $32,889.

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.