Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #32,735 of 84,120 nationally
Venerable Flackville Eviction Risk: Moderate , Indianapolis
Tract 18097340302 · Marion County, IN · pop 5,263 · neighborhood within 1.4 mi
How risky is the Venerable Flackville area of Indianapolis city (balance) for landlords? Census tract 18097340302 scores 5.6/10, the Moderate tier. That is riskier than about 61% of US census tracts.
50% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 26% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $936 a month against an average household income of $59,423 a year, roughly 19% of income at the averages. Renters make up 65% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Risk score
4.5
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 32%
Stable renters 33%
Owners 35%
Tract context
Occupied units1,754
Renter share65.2%
SVI overall0.90
Poverty rate18.4%
Median income$59,423
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
62
th percentile
Elevated
Within county
65
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
76
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Indianapolis and the region
Centroid at 39.8096, -86.2476 · click any tract to drill in
Why Venerable Flackville scores 4.5
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
18.4% poverty · this tract
4.6
Supply constraint
$936 rent vs county FMR
2.3
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 Venerable Flackville compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 90
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 86%Socioeconomic
- 85%Household composition
- 83%Racial/ethnic minority
- 78%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 2%Grade C
- 0%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)
- 419Total filings 2020-21
- 5.4Avg monthly (observed)
- 9.9Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.55×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.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Venerable Flackville. 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.
- 28.3%Housing insecurity
- 20.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 38.4%Food insecurity
- 25.9%SNAP enrollment
- 17.8%Transit barriers
- 26.0%No health insurance
- 20.7%Frequent mental distress
- 38.1%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Venerable Flackville
The score leans hardest on tenant organizing strength at 8.7/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Indianapolis eviction risk city (balance), while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Marion County average of 5.4 and above the Indiana statewide average of 4.7. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
HOLC surveyors mapped this tract in the 1930s with a dominant grade of C ("Declining"), above the redlined D tier. The grading still shaped decades of lending and development in the surrounding area.
The tract is Hispanic or Latino and White and ranks around the 90th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
Frequently asked
About tract 18097340302
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18097340302?
Census tract 18097340302 in the Venerable Flackville neighborhood scores 4.5/10 (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 18097340302?
Median gross rent is $936/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 50% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 18097340302?
18.4% of residents in tract 18097340302 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,263.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 18097340302?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 90th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 86th, household 85th, minority 83th, housing 78th.
Q5
Is tract 18097340302 considered part of Venerable Flackville?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18097340302 fall within Venerable Flackville (neighborhood centroid within 1.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 18097340302 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.55× 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.
Q7
What share of households in tract 18097340302 struggle to pay rent?
About 28.3% 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. 20.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 18097340302 compare to Indianapolis overall?
Tract 18097340302 scores 4.5/10, higher than the parent city of Indianapolis at 2.7/10. 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.
Q9
Was tract 18097340302 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. 0% 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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