Michigan City Eviction Risk: Lower

29% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.

Average gross rent is $1,309, 35% above the Michigan City average. Running cool, economic stress reads 1.4/10. The voucher gap is 26.4%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10. SNAP participation runs 5.2% against 15.2% nationally.

Food insecurity runs 10.3% against 17.8% nationally. It sits 0.7 points below the LaPorte County average of 3.7. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Only 9% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. Social vulnerability reads 1.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $93,350, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the IN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.