Clifton Eviction Risk: Moderate , Indianapolis

37% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Marion County average of 46.3%. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2/10. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.1/10.

The poverty rate is 22%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Against the Marion County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points.

Housing insecurity runs 22.8% against 14.2% nationally. Severe burden reaches 9%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. SNAP participation runs 23.3% against 15.2% nationally.

Average gross rent is $1,017, 12% below the Indianapolis average. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

Nationally it ranks #28,095 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the IN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.4 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

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.