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Neighborhood · Ranked #20,889 of 84,120 nationally

Liverpool Eviction Risk: Moderate , Hobart

Tract 18089041600 · Lake County, IN · pop 4,970 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi

In the Liverpool neighborhood of Hobart, census tract 18089041600 scores $1/10 for eviction risk. That is riskier than about 39% of US census tracts.

Rent eats 30% or more of income for 33% of renter households, a high level, and 24% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,076 monthly, set against $50,968 in average yearly household income, roughly 25% of income at the averages. About 39% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

Risk score
5.3
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 13% Stable renters 26% Owners 61%
Tract context
Occupied units1,829
Renter share39.1%
SVI overall0.90
Poverty rate27.3%
Median income$50,968

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 2 tracts In Liverpool
Very High
Within parent city
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Hobart
Moderate
Within county
74 th percentile
Rank, 74th percentileLowHigh
#35 of 131 tracts In Lake County
Elevated
Within state
89 th percentile
Rank, 89th percentileLowHigh
#195 of 1,693 tracts In Indiana
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Hobart and the region

Centroid at 41.5569, -87.2861 · click any tract to drill in

Why Liverpool scores 5.3

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Hobart
6.2
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.8
State political climate
Indiana legislature & governorship
2.0
Economic stress
27.3% poverty · this tract
6.8
Supply constraint
$1,076 rent vs county FMR
4.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Hobart
3.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.2
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Hobart
6.9
Housing court bias
Inherited from Hobart
5.3

How Liverpool compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Liverpool risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 5.35.3This tracttract 041600Hobart: 2.52.5Hobartparent cityCounty: 3.93.9Countyavg tract in countyState: 3.63.6Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 90

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Liverpool. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress

Eviction-adjacent indicators

Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Liverpool

The heaviest input here is tenant organizing strength at 6.9/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Hobart eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.

Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Lake County average of 5.2 and in line with the Indiana statewide average of 4.7. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.

In CDC survey modeling, about 18.1% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 14.0% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.

This tract overlaps land the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation redlined in the 1930s, a dominant grade of D ("Hazardous") across 23% of the tract. Redlining cut off mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class blocks, and those areas still tend to carry higher rent burden and eviction filings today.

For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.

Frequently asked

About tract 18089041600

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18089041600?

Census tract 18089041600 in the Liverpool neighborhood scores 5.3/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 18089041600?

Median gross rent is $1,076/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 33% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 18089041600?

27.3% of residents in tract 18089041600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,970.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 18089041600?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 90th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 91th, household 82th, minority 62th, housing 80th.
Q5

Is tract 18089041600 considered part of Liverpool?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18089041600 fall within Liverpool (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 18089041600 struggle to pay rent?

About 18.1% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 14.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 18089041600 compare to Hobart overall?

Tract 18089041600 scores 5.3/10, higher than the parent city of Hobart at 2.5/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Hobart eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 18089041600 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 23% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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