Marshalltown Eviction Risk: Elevated , Gary

Against Lake County at 43.0%, 70% of renters here are cost-burdened. The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10.

SNAP participation runs 37.7% against 15.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 42%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.3/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 27.3% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. On the high side, housing-court posture reads 8.7/10.

It sits 1.6 points above the Lake County average of 4.4. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. On the national scale it lands near the 78th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.2/10. Statewide the IN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 2.1 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

Average gross rent is $1,068, close to the Gary average. Annual rent works out to 32% of average household income of $40,625.

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