Broad Ripple Eviction Risk: Lower , Indianapolis

The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 8.7/10. Average gross rent is $1,539, 33% above the Indianapolis average.

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.7/10. Disability prevalence runs 16.3% against 31.5% nationally.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 2/10. The voucher gap is 20.0%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

It sits 1.2 points below the Marion County average of 4.2. The severe-burden share is 8%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 4.0% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Indianapolis. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

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