Forestdale Eviction Risk: Moderate , Hammond

Severe burden reaches 36%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The clearest offset is eviction-process difficulty at 1.7/10.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 2/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.8/10. The poverty rate is 22%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Against the Lake County average of 4.4, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.0 points. This ground was mapped A ("Best") 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.

On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.5/10.

Statewide the IN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

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.