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Valley Mills Eviction Risk: Lower , Indianapolis

Tract 18097370306 · Marion County, IN · pop 5,663 · neighborhood within 1.3 mi

Tract 18097370306 sits in the Valley Mills area of Indianapolis eviction risk, IN, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3/10. It is home to 5,663 residents. At $1,692 a month, rents run 46% over what the rest of Indianapolis commands.

Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 3% Stable renters 7% Owners 90%
Tract context
Occupied units1,930
Renter share9.7%
SVI overall0.15
Poverty rate7.6%
Median income$84,566

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 2 tracts In Valley Mills
Very Low
Within parent city
7 th percentile
Rank, 7th percentileLowHigh
#216 of 231 tracts In Indianapolis
Very Low
Within county
4 th percentile
Rank, 4th percentileLowHigh
#242 of 253 tracts In Marion County
Very Low
Within state
34 th percentile
Rank, 34th percentileLowHigh
#1,115 of 1,693 tracts In Indiana
Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across Indianapolis and the region

Centroid at 39.6812, -86.2576 · click any tract to drill in

Why Valley Mills scores 3

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
7.6% poverty · this tract
1.9
Supply constraint
$1,692 rent vs county FMR
8.2
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 Valley Mills compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Valley Mills risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.0This tracttract 3703064.0Indianapolisparent city4.2Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 15

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

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)

  • 360Total filings 2020-21
  • 4.7Avg monthly (observed)
  • 3.4Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 1.40×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Indianapolis, IN as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Valley Mills. 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 Valley Mills

Cost burden runs roughly one in three here against 46.3% across Marion County. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 8.7/10.

The voucher gap is 31.9%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Running hot, supply constraint reads 8.2/10.

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.9/10. It sits 1.2 points below the Marion County average of 4.2.

Severe burden reaches 12%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. SNAP participation runs 6.9% against 15.2% nationally.

That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. At 10% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the IN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler.

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 18097370306

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18097370306?

Census tract 18097370306 in the Valley Mills neighborhood scores 3/10 (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 18097370306?

Median gross rent is $1,692/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 30% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 18097370306?

7.6% of residents in tract 18097370306 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,663.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 18097370306?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 15th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 24th, household 83th, minority 32th, housing 1th.
Q5

Is tract 18097370306 considered part of Valley Mills?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18097370306 fall within Valley Mills (neighborhood centroid within 1.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 18097370306 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 1.40× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran above pre-pandemic norms. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Indianapolis eviction risk, IN), 2020-2021.
Q7

What share of households in tract 18097370306 struggle to pay rent?

About 10.5% 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. 7.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 18097370306 compare to Indianapolis overall?

Tract 18097370306 scores 3/10, 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.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Indianapolis

Top eight tracts in Indianapolis ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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