3 census tracts · pop 6,936 · pop-weighted Eviction Risk Score 4.6/10
· range 3.7–5.4
Friends and Neighbors is a 3-tract neighborhood of Indianapolis, IN and houses 6,936 people. It carries an Eviction Risk Score of 4.6/10, in the Moderate tier. Against a Indianapolis baseline of 30.4%, roughly one in two of renters here cross the 30%-of-income line.
32% are severely burdened, paying half their income or more in rent. That cohort has no absorption capacity for an unexpected bill, and it is where non-payment filings originate. The strongest single driver of the headline number is tenant-organizing strength at 8.7/10.
20.7% of adults report being unable to pay a utility bill, against a 9.2% national figure. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The 3 tracts inside this boundary do not behave alike. Individual scores run 3.7 to 5.4, a 1.7-point gap wide enough that the area average misleads on any specific address. Well under the midpoint is eviction-process difficulty, at 2.1/10.
The poverty rate is 24%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest. CDC survey data puts housing insecurity at 24.2% of adults, against 14.2% nationally. At $1,034 a month, rents sit 11% under what the rest of Indianapolis commands.
That places it #22 of 76 neighborhoods in Indianapolis. The closest comparables inside the same city are Highland Vicinity and University Heights. Social vulnerability runs high at 7.9/10, concentrating the disaster- and displacement-exposure this model treats as a lagging risk input.
Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $53,352. 50% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Underwrite the address, not the area: with 1.7 points between its best and worst tract, the per-tract table below is the operative number. The number is rebuilt whenever its ACS, court-record, or statutory inputs change.
Risk score
4.6
Moderate
3 tracts · population-weighted
Friends and Neighbors vs IndianapolisHow this neighborhood stacks against the citywide average
Single-parent HH, disability, language barriers, age 17- / 65+
Racial/ethnic minority84%ile
Hispanic + non-white share of population
Housing & transport50%ile
Multi-unit structures, mobile homes, crowding, no vehicle
Eviction filings · Princeton Eviction Lab
Court-record eviction history in Friends and Neighbors
Aggregated across 0 validated constituent tracts. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households, pop-weighted.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
1,000Total filings 2020-21
4.3Avg monthly observed
6.0Pre-pandemic baseline
0.73×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Tracked under Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Indianapolis, IN).
CDC PLACES 2023 · pop-weighted
Eviction-adjacent indicators in Friends and Neighbors
Average across all constituent tracts, population-weighted. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh) crude prevalence.
23.5%Housing insecurity
20.0%Utility shutoff threat
31.6%Food insecurity
25.1%SNAP enrollment
12.6%No health insurance
36.2%Any disability
Frequently asked
About Friends and Neighbors
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for Friends and Neighbors?
Friends and Neighbors scores 4.6/10 (Moderate tier) across 3 census tracts. The pop-weighted Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income and poverty signals.
Q2
How does Friends and Neighbors compare to Indianapolis overall?
Friends and Neighbors scores 0.6 points higher than Indianapolis overall (4/10). Renters spend 51% of income on rent vs 30% citywide. Average rent: $1,034 vs $1,156.
Q3
What is the average rent in Friends and Neighbors?
Average gross rent in Friends and Neighbors is $1,034/month (pop-weighted across 3 census tracts, ACS 5-year 2023). 51% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q4
What percentage of Friends and Neighbors residents are renters?
50% of Friends and Neighbors households are renter-occupied (vs 44% in Indianapolis). The neighborhood has 6,936 residents.
Q5
Is Friends and Neighbors a high social-vulnerability area?
Friends and Neighbors sits in the 77th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index (highly vulnerable). The index combines poverty, unemployment, household composition, racial/ethnic minority share, and housing/transportation factors across all US census tracts.
Q6
Which tracts in Friends and Neighbors have the highest eviction risk?
The highest-risk constituent tract in Friends and Neighbors is census tract 18097350800 (score 5.4/10). Across the 3 tracts in this neighborhood the score ranges from 3.7 to 5.4, a spread of 1.7 points.
Q7
How safe is Friends and Neighbors for landlords?
Friends and Neighbors carries a moderate-tier eviction-risk profile for landlords (4.6/10). Pop-weighted across 3 constituent tracts, the score blends parent-city rent-control posture, county eviction-process timelines, and tract-specific rent-to-income / poverty signals. Compared to Indianapolis as a whole (4/10), this neighborhood is higher-risk.
Q8
What is the demographic breakdown of Friends and Neighbors?
Friends and Neighbors has 7,481 residents. Top groups: Black (non-Hispanic) (67.9%), White (non-Hispanic) (21.1%), Hispanic / Latino (5.4%). Source: ACS 5-year 2023, table B03002.
