Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #56,048 of 84,120 nationally
Spring Mill Woods Eviction Risk: Lower , Indianapolis
Tract 18097320106 · Marion County, IN · pop 3,612 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
With a score of 3.6/10, tract 18097320106 in the Spring Mill Woods area of Indianapolis, IN reads lower for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,612. Severe burden reaches 32%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
3.6
Lower
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 22%
Stable renters 38%
Owners 40%
Tract context
Occupied units1,374
Renter share59.9%
SVI overall0.70
Poverty rate11.3%
Median income$71,721
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
36
th percentile
Low
Within county
36
th percentile
Low
Within state
53
th percentile
Moderate
Geographic context
Risk heat across Indianapolis and the region
Centroid at 39.9233, -86.1737 · click any tract to drill in
Why Spring Mill Woods scores 3.6
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
11.3% poverty · this tract
2.8
Supply constraint
$1,162 rent vs county FMR
4.1
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 Spring Mill Woods compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 70
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 70%Socioeconomic
- 70%Household composition
- 72%Racial/ethnic minority
- 49%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: A: Best
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. 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
- 0%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)
- 844Total filings 2020-21
- 11.0Avg monthly (observed)
- 11.8Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.93×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.
- 12.7%Housing insecurity
- 11.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 16.8%Food insecurity
- 11.5%SNAP enrollment
- 9.3%Transit barriers
- 8.6%No health insurance
- 16.8%Frequent mental distress
- 33.5%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Spring Mill Woods
What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 8.7/10. Cost burden runs 36% here against 46.3% across Marion County. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2/10.
Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.1/10. It sits 0.6 points below the Marion County average of 4.2. This ground was mapped A ("Best") 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 #56,048 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.3/10.
Average gross rent is $1,162, close to the Indianapolis average. Annual rent works out to 19% of average household income of $71,721.
60% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
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 18097320106
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18097320106?
Census tract 18097320106 in the Spring Mill Woods neighborhood scores 3.6/10 (Lower 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 18097320106?
Median gross rent is $1,162/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 36% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 18097320106?
11.3% of residents in tract 18097320106 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,612.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 18097320106?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 70th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 70th, household 70th, minority 72th, housing 49th.
Q5
Is tract 18097320106 considered part of Spring Mill Woods?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18097320106 fall within Spring Mill Woods (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 18097320106 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.93× 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 18097320106 struggle to pay rent?
About 12.7% 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. 11.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 18097320106 compare to Indianapolis overall?
Tract 18097320106 scores 3.6/10, lower 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 18097320106 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of A. 0% 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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