Little Flower Eviction Risk: Moderate , Indianapolis

64% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Marion County average of 46.3%. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 8.7/10.

The poverty rate is 35%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the high side, economic stress reads 8.7/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10.

It sits 1.2 points above the Marion County average of 4.2. At $941 a month, rents run 19% under what the rest of Indianapolis commands. Food insecurity runs 26.9% against 17.8% nationally.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 16.4% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. 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.

Nationally it ranks #24,859 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the IN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

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