Elkhart Eviction Risk: Moderate

At $647 a month, rents run 35% under what the rest of Elkhart commands. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.1/10. Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.7/10.

The severe-burden share is 17%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. It sits 1.5 points above the Elkhart County average of 3.9.

The poverty rate is 23%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Cost burden runs 35% here against 40.7% across Elkhart County. Food insecurity runs 24.9% against 17.8% nationally.

Nationally it ranks #24,859 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.8/10. Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $45,581, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

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. 45% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.