Lincoln Village Eviction Risk: Moderate , Merrillville

56% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Lake County average of 43.0%. Pulling hardest the other way is eviction-process difficulty at 1.9/10.

Well under the midpoint, 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.

Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.6/10. The voucher gap is 16.0%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Food insecurity runs 25.6% against 17.8% nationally. Against the Lake County average of 4.4, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.8 points.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.3% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Average gross rent is $1,389, 8% above the Merrillville average.

On the national scale it lands near the 65th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the IN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

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