Michigan City Eviction Risk: Moderate

The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Food insecurity runs 36.2% against 17.8% nationally. The poverty rate is 32%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

19% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Running hot, economic stress reads 8.1/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 22.3% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10. It sits 0.9 points above the LaPorte County average of 3.7. That is riskier than roughly 53% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

Average gross rent is $916, close to the Michigan City average. Annual rent works out to 25% of average household income of $44,859.

30% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.