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

Indianapolis Eviction Risk: Moderate

Tract 18097357601 · Marion County, IN · pop 5,001

Census tract 18097357601 covers part of Indianapolis, IN, and scores 5.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 5,001. The dominant input is economic stress at 9.2/10.

Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 31% Stable renters 20% Owners 49%
Tract context
Occupied units1,785
Renter share51.1%
SVI overall0.52
Poverty rate36.8%
Median income$42,029

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within parent city
81 th percentile
Rank, 81st percentileLowHigh
#45 of 231 tracts In Indianapolis
High
Within county
91 th percentile
Rank, 91st percentileLowHigh
#23 of 253 tracts In Marion County
Very 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 39.7307, -86.1284 · 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
36.8% poverty · this tract
9.2
Supply constraint
$1,081 rent vs county FMR
3.4
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 3576014.0Indianapolisparent city4.2Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 52

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

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.

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)

  • 597Total filings 2020-21
  • 7.8Avg monthly (observed)
  • 10.6Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.73×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran below baseline. 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

60% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Marion County average of 46.3%. The poverty rate is 37%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.7/10.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10. SNAP participation runs 27.7% against 15.2% nationally. The severe-burden share is 15%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

It sits 1.2 points above the Marion County average of 4.2. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 18.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. 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.

Nationally it ranks #24,859 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.7/10, 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 socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

Average gross rent is $1,081, close to the Indianapolis average. Annual rent works out to 31% of average household income of $42,029.

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 18097357601

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18097357601?

Census tract 18097357601 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 18097357601?

Median gross rent is $1,081/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 60% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 18097357601?

36.8% of residents in tract 18097357601 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,001.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 18097357601?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 52th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 93th, household 23th, minority 48th, housing 12th.
Q5

Did eviction filings in tract 18097357601 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.73× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Indianapolis eviction risk, IN), 2020-2021.
Q6

What share of households in tract 18097357601 struggle to pay rent?

About 22.7% 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. 18.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 18097357601 compare to Indianapolis overall?

Tract 18097357601 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 18097357601 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. 81% 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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