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Census Tract · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally

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.

Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 31% Stable renters 14% Owners 55%
Tract context
Occupied units889
Renter share44.5%
SVI overall0.95
Poverty rate41.4%
Median income$21,563

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within parent city
90 th percentile
Rank, 90th percentileLowHigh
#24 of 231 tracts In Indianapolis
Very High
Within county
83 th percentile
Rank, 83rd percentileLowHigh
#45 of 253 tracts In Marion County
High
Within state
95 th percentile
Rank, 95th percentileLowHigh
#93 of 1,693 tracts In Indiana
Very High
National
70 th percentile
Rank, 70th percentileLowHigh
#24,859 of 84,120 tracts In U.S.
Elevated
Geographic context

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-friendly
Local 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
41.4% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$744 rent vs county FMR
1.0
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 Indianapolis compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Indianapolis risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.4This tracttract 3416004.0Indianapolisparent city4.2Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 95

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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.

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)

  • 318Total filings 2020-21
  • 4.1Avg monthly (observed)
  • 7.7Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.54×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Indianapolis, IN as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

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.

Analysis

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 18097341600

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18097341600?

Census tract 18097341600 in Indianapolis 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 18097341600?

Median gross rent is $744/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 69% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 18097341600?

41.4% of residents in tract 18097341600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,870.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 18097341600?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 95th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 96th, household 98th, minority 86th, housing 58th.
Q5

Did eviction filings in tract 18097341600 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.54× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings dropped sharply, likely a moratorium effect. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Indianapolis eviction risk, IN), 2020-2021.
Q6

What share of households in tract 18097341600 struggle to pay rent?

About 31.7% 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. 27.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 18097341600 compare to Indianapolis overall?

Tract 18097341600 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.
Q8

Was tract 18097341600 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 38% 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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