Indianapolis Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 18097341600 · Marion County, IN · pop 1,870
With a score of 5.4/10, tract 18097341600 in Indianapolis, IN reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 1,870 residents. Cost burden runs around two-thirds here against 46.3% across Marion County.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Indianapolis and the region
Centroid at 39.7773, -86.2045 · click any tract to drill in
Why Indianapolis scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Indianapolis compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 95
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 96%Socioeconomic
- 98%Household composition
- 86%Racial/ethnic minority
- 58%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. 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
- 62%Grade C
- 38%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.
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)
- 318Total filings 2020-21
- 4.1Avg monthly (observed)
- 7.7Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.54×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Indianapolis, IN as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 31.7%Housing insecurity
- 27.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 45.2%Food insecurity
- 37.6%SNAP enrollment
- 21.9%Transit barriers
- 21.9%No health insurance
- 22.1%Frequent mental distress
- 43.1%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Indianapolis
What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10. Severe burden reaches 31%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The poverty rate is 41%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
Annualized rent equals 41% of average household income of $21,563, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Average gross rent is $744, 36% below the Indianapolis average. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10.
Housing insecurity runs 31.7% against 14.2% nationally. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.7/10.
Against the Marion County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points. Adults with no health insurance runs 21.9% against 11.3% nationally. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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