Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally
Riverside Eviction Risk: Moderate , Indianapolis
Tract 18097353500 · Marion County, IN · pop 2,145 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
18097353500 is a census tract in the Riverside area of Indianapolis, IN. It scores 5.4/10 for landlords. Population here is 2,145. Severe burden reaches 39%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 57%
Stable renters 33%
Owners 10%
Tract context
Occupied units1,271
Renter share89.5%
SVI overall0.64
Poverty rate44.0%
Median income$37,992
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
83
th percentile
High
Within county
88
th percentile
High
Within state
95
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Indianapolis and the region
Centroid at 39.7921, -86.1740 · click any tract to drill in
Why Riverside scores 5.4
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
44.0% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$1,290 rent vs county FMR
5.1
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 Riverside compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 64
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 89%Socioeconomic
- 1%Household composition
- 65%Racial/ethnic minority
- 90%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
- 0%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 43%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)
- 243Total filings 2020-21
- 3.2Avg monthly (observed)
- 2.1Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.49×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Indianapolis, IN as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Riverside. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
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.
- 15.8%Housing insecurity
- 13.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 25.7%Food insecurity
- 17.2%SNAP enrollment
- 13.9%Transit barriers
- 10.6%No health insurance
- 20.2%Frequent mental distress
- 32.2%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Riverside
Cost burden runs 64% here against 46.3% across Marion County. The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10.
The poverty rate is 44%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. This is renter territory: 90% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
Annualized rent equals 41% of average household income of $37,992, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength 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. Food insecurity runs 25.7% against 17.8% nationally.
Average gross rent is $1,290, 12% above the Indianapolis average. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 18097353500
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18097353500?
Census tract 18097353500 in the Riverside neighborhood scores 5.4/10 (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 18097353500?
Median gross rent is $1,290/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 64% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 18097353500?
44.0% of residents in tract 18097353500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,145.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 18097353500?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 64th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 89th, household 1th, minority 65th, housing 90th.
Q5
Is tract 18097353500 considered part of Riverside?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18097353500 fall within Riverside (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 18097353500 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 1.49× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran above pre-pandemic norms. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Indianapolis eviction risk, IN), 2020-2021.
Q7
What share of households in tract 18097353500 struggle to pay rent?
About 15.8% 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. 13.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 18097353500 compare to Indianapolis overall?
Tract 18097353500 scores 5.4/10, 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 18097353500 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. 43% 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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