Emerson Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Indianapolis

25% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The poverty rate is 29%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Running cool, state political climate reads 2/10.

Against Marion County at 46.3%, 55% of renters here are cost-burdened. Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.1/10. Against the Marion County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points.

Average gross rent is $934, 19% below the Indianapolis average. 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 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.2/10.

Statewide the IN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

Annual rent works out to 26% of average household income of $42,391. 59% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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