Michigan City Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 18091040800 · LaPorte County, IN · pop 3,188
Tract 18091040800 covers Michigan City in Indiana. Home to 3,188 residents, it scores 4.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. On the national scale it ranks #66,749 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 54% of renter households, a severe level, and 28% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $915 a month while the average household earns $53,529 a year, roughly 21% of income at the averages. About 26% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Michigan City and the region
Centroid at 41.7073, -86.8909 · click any tract to drill in
Why Michigan City scores 3.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Michigan City compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 41
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 66%Socioeconomic
- 31%Household composition
- 48%Racial/ethnic minority
- 17%Housing & transportation
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 17.3%Housing insecurity
- 14.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 23.4%Food insecurity
- 17.1%SNAP enrollment
- 11.6%Transit barriers
- 10.5%No health insurance
- 20.9%Frequent mental distress
- 38.8%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Michigan City
What moves this score most is supply constraint at 3.8/10. 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 about the same as the LaPorte County average of 4.4 and in line with the Indiana statewide average of 4.7. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 41st 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.
In CDC survey modeling, about 17.3% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 14.2% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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Highest-risk tracts in Michigan City
Top eight tracts in Michigan City ranked by composite eviction-risk score.