Within parent city
89
th percentile
High
Census Tract · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally
Indianapolis Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 18097370203 · Marion County, IN · pop 4,523
Tract 18097370203 sits in Indianapolis eviction risk, IN, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.4/10. It is home to 4,523 residents. The severe-burden share is 52%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 39%
Stable renters 21%
Owners 40%
Tract context
Occupied units1,545
Renter share60.6%
SVI overall0.99
Poverty rate39.9%
Median income$34,671
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
79
th percentile
High
Within state
95
th percentile
Very High
National
70
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Indianapolis and the region
Centroid at 39.7163, -86.2464 · click any tract to drill in
Why Indianapolis 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
39.9% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$1,169 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 Indianapolis compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 99
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 98%Socioeconomic
- 98%Household composition
- 62%Racial/ethnic minority
- 91%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
- 92%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)
- 480Total filings 2020-21
- 6.2Avg monthly (observed)
- 6.7Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.92×Ratio to 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.
- 21.2%Housing insecurity
- 17.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 30.7%Food insecurity
- 23.9%SNAP enrollment
- 15.4%Transit barriers
- 15.6%No health insurance
- 22.8%Frequent mental distress
- 38.7%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Indianapolis
Against Marion County at 46.3%, 65% of renters here are cost-burdened. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10. The poverty rate is 40%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
Set annual rent against average income of $34,671 and the ratio lands at 40%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.7/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 2/10.
It sits 1.2 points above the Marion County average of 4.2. SNAP participation runs 23.9% against 15.2% nationally.
Housing insecurity runs 21.2% against 14.2% nationally. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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 #24,859 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.9/10. Statewide the IN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 18097370203
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18097370203?
Census tract 18097370203 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 18097370203?
Median gross rent is $1,169/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 65% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 18097370203?
39.9% of residents in tract 18097370203 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,523.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 18097370203?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 99th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 98th, household 98th, minority 62th, housing 91th.
Q5
Did eviction filings in tract 18097370203 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.92× 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 18097370203 struggle to pay rent?
About 21.2% 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. 17.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 18097370203 compare to Indianapolis overall?
Tract 18097370203 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 18097370203 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. 92% 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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