Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #39,308 of 84,120 nationally
Highland Vicinity Eviction Risk: Moderate , Indianapolis
Tract 18097351500 · Marion County, IN · pop 1,977 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
With a score of 4.6/10, tract 18097351500 in the Highland Vicinity area of Indianapolis, IN reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 1,977 residents. Severe burden reaches 27%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
4.6
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 34%
Stable renters 32%
Owners 34%
Tract context
Occupied units980
Renter share66.0%
SVI overall0.80
Poverty rate16.4%
Median income$53,125
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
57
th percentile
Elevated
Within county
62
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
78
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Indianapolis and the region
Centroid at 39.8059, -86.1595 · click any tract to drill in
Why Highland Vicinity scores 4.6
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
16.4% poverty · this tract
4.1
Supply constraint
$1,217 rent vs county FMR
4.5
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 Highland Vicinity compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 80
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 87%Socioeconomic
- 35%Household composition
- 72%Racial/ethnic minority
- 80%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
- 7%Grade B
- 43%Grade C
- 49%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)
- 367Total filings 2020-21
- 4.8Avg monthly (observed)
- 6.1Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.78×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below 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.
- 15.0%Housing insecurity
- 12.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 17.7%Food insecurity
- 11.0%SNAP enrollment
- 9.8%Transit barriers
- 8.3%No health insurance
- 18.4%Frequent mental distress
- 25.7%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Highland Vicinity
The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 8.7/10. This is renter territory: 66% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
On the softer side, state political climate reads 2/10. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.1/10.
Cost burden runs roughly one in two here against 46.3% across Marion County. 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. On the national scale it lands near the 53rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
Social vulnerability reads 8.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.
It tracks the Marion County average of 4.2 closely. Average gross rent is $1,217, close to the Indianapolis average.
Annual rent works out to 27% of average household income of $53,125.
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.
Frequently asked
About tract 18097351500
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18097351500?
Census tract 18097351500 in the Highland Vicinity neighborhood scores 4.6/10 (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 18097351500?
Median gross rent is $1,217/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 51% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 18097351500?
16.4% of residents in tract 18097351500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,977.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 18097351500?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 80th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 87th, household 35th, minority 72th, housing 80th.
Q5
Is tract 18097351500 considered part of Highland Vicinity?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18097351500 fall within Highland Vicinity (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 18097351500 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.78× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Indianapolis eviction risk, IN), 2020-2021.
Q7
What share of households in tract 18097351500 struggle to pay rent?
About 15.0% 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. 12.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 18097351500 compare to Indianapolis overall?
Tract 18097351500 scores 4.6/10, 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 18097351500 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. 49% 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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