Leshwood Eviction Risk: Elevated

Food insecurity affects 44.0% of adults, 26.2 points above the national rate. The poverty rate is 40%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest. Sitting well above the midpoint is tenant-organizing strength at 9.3/10.

Annualized rent equals 34% of average household income here, past the 30% affordability line, which compresses the margin any screening standard has to work with. SNAP participation is 35.0% of households versus 15.2% nationally. Severe burden reaches 21%. A tenant at that level absorbs no shock: one cut shift or one repair bill converts directly into arrears.

On the high side is housing-court posture at 8.7/10. 31% of renters here are cost-burdened at the 30% threshold, lower than the Gary rate of 36.4%.

At $1,160 a month, rents sit 15% over what the rest of Gary commands. Among the 15 mapped neighborhoods of Gary, it ranks #1 by risk, the upper third.

For a like-for-like read, Waverly Park and Tarrytown score within a fraction of it. Social vulnerability runs high at 8.5/10, concentrating the disaster- and displacement-exposure this model treats as a lagging risk input.

46% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

One tract means one number: 6/10 applies directly to any address inside the boundary. The number is rebuilt whenever its ACS, court-record, or statutory inputs change.