Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #44,239 of 84,120 nationally
Chatham-Arch Eviction Risk: Moderate , Indianapolis
Tract 18097354202 · Marion County, IN · pop 3,424 · neighborhood within 0.0 mi
Census tract 18097354202 covers part of the Chatham-Arch area of Indianapolis, IN, and scores 4.3/10 on landlord eviction risk. roughly one in three of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly below the Marion County average of 46.3%.
Risk score
4.3
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 24%
Stable renters 51%
Owners 25%
Tract context
Occupied units2,423
Renter share74.3%
SVI overall0.27
Poverty rate17.4%
Median income$70,234
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
55
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
57
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
68
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Indianapolis and the region
Centroid at 39.7792, -86.1472 · click any tract to drill in
Why Chatham-Arch scores 4.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Indianapolis
6.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.5
State political climate
Indiana legislature & governorship
2.0
Economic stress
17.4% poverty · this tract
4.3
Supply constraint
$1,523 rent vs county FMR
6.9
Rent control risk
Inherited from Indianapolis
6.6
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.1
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Indianapolis
8.7
Housing court bias
Inherited from Indianapolis
6.8
How Chatham-Arch compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 27
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 49%Socioeconomic
- 5%Household composition
- 48%Racial/ethnic minority
- 31%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 3%Grade C
- 72%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Eviction filings
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 359Total filings 2020-21
- 4.7Avg monthly (observed)
- 4.6Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.02×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran near baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Indianapolis, IN as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 8.4%Housing insecurity
- 6.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 10.3%Food insecurity
- 5.5%SNAP enrollment
- 6.2%Transit barriers
- 6.6%No health insurance
- 16.2%Frequent mental distress
- 22.0%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Chatham-Arch
The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 8.7/10. Average gross rent is $1,523, 32% above the Indianapolis average. 74% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.
Severe burden reaches 19%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.1/10.
The voucher gap is 18.7%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. SNAP participation runs 5.5% against 15.2% nationally.
Food insecurity runs 10.3% against 17.8% nationally. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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. That is riskier than roughly 47% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
Social vulnerability reads 3.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 18097354202
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18097354202?
Census tract 18097354202 in the Chatham-Arch neighborhood scores 4.3/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 18097354202?
Median gross rent is $1,523/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 32% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 18097354202?
17.4% of residents in tract 18097354202 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,424.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 18097354202?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 27th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 49th, household 5th, minority 48th, housing 31th.
Q5
Is tract 18097354202 considered part of Chatham-Arch?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18097354202 fall within Chatham-Arch (neighborhood centroid within 0.0 miles, OSM data).
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 18097354202 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 1.02× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings returned near baseline. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Indianapolis eviction risk, IN), 2020-2021.
Q7
What share of households in tract 18097354202 struggle to pay rent?
About 8.4% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 6.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 18097354202 compare to Indianapolis overall?
Tract 18097354202 scores 4.3/10, higher than the parent city of Indianapolis at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Indianapolis eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 18097354202 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 72% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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