Michigan City Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 18091040100 · LaPorte County, IN · pop 4,100 · 92% of tract blocks fall in Michigan City
Census tract 18091040100 covers Michigan City, home to 4,100 residents. For landlords it grades 5.1/10, a moderate reading. That is riskier than roughly 43% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
About 52% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 32% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $991 monthly, set against $41,500 in average yearly household income, roughly 29% of income at the averages. About 28% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Michigan City and the region
Centroid at 41.7033, -86.9182 · click any tract to drill in
Why Michigan City scores 5.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Michigan City compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 55
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 86%Socioeconomic
- 10%Household composition
- 72%Racial/ethnic minority
- 30%Housing & transportation
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 27.6%Housing insecurity
- 23.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 37.6%Food insecurity
- 29.4%SNAP enrollment
- 18.0%Transit barriers
- 17.8%No health insurance
- 21.8%Frequent mental distress
- 43.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Michigan City
The heaviest input here is economic stress at 8.6/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Michigan City eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the LaPorte County average of 4.4 and above the Indiana statewide average of 4.7. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 27.6% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 23.2% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is White and Black and ranks around the 55th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 18091040100
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Highest-risk tracts in Michigan City
Top eight tracts in Michigan City ranked by composite eviction-risk score.