Marktown Historic District Eviction Risk: Moderate , East Chicago

The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9/10. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.4/10.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 2/10. The poverty rate is 22%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. The severe-burden share is 13%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Food insecurity runs 25.4% against 17.8% nationally. At $1,111 a month, rents run 11% over what the rest of Whiting commands.

This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Lake Co. Gary. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. That is riskier than roughly 59% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 7.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $78,672, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the IN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.0 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. It tracks the Lake County average of 4.4 closely.

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