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Neighborhood · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally

Venerable Flackville Eviction Risk: Moderate , Indianapolis

Tract 18097340700 · Marion County, IN · pop 4,659 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi

With a score of 5.4/10, tract 18097340700 in the Venerable Flackville area of Indianapolis, IN reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 4,659 residents. The severe-burden share is 29%, 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 29% Stable renters 26% Owners 45%
Tract context
Occupied units1,439
Renter share55.7%
SVI overall0.99
Poverty rate28.6%
Median income$46,033

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#3 of 5 tracts In Venerable Flackville
Moderate
Within parent city
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 231 tracts In Indianapolis
Very High
Within county
85 th percentile
Rank, 85th percentileLowHigh
#40 of 253 tracts In Marion County
High
Within state
95 th percentile
Rank, 95th percentileLowHigh
#93 of 1,693 tracts In Indiana
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Indianapolis and the region

Centroid at 39.7986, -86.2278 · click any tract to drill in

Why Venerable Flackville 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
28.6% poverty · this tract
7.2
Supply constraint
$980 rent vs county FMR
2.6
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.
Venerable Flackville risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.4This tracttract 3407004.0Indianapolisparent city4.2Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 99

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)

  • 402Total filings 2020-21
  • 5.2Avg monthly (observed)
  • 12.9Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.40×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Venerable Flackville

What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 8.7/10. The poverty rate is 29%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 24.0% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10.

Adults with no health insurance runs 24.1% against 11.3% nationally. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.1/10. Against the Marion County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points.

53% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Marion County average of 46.3%. Average gross rent is $980, 15% below the Indianapolis average.

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.

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. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 18097340700

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18097340700?

Census tract 18097340700 in the Venerable Flackville neighborhood 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 18097340700?

Median gross rent is $980/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 53% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 18097340700?

28.6% of residents in tract 18097340700 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,659.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 18097340700?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 99th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 98th, household 100th, minority 81th, housing 79th.
Q5

Is tract 18097340700 considered part of Venerable Flackville?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18097340700 fall within Venerable Flackville (neighborhood centroid within 0.9 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 18097340700 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.40× 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 18097340700 struggle to pay rent?

About 29.2% 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. 24.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 18097340700 compare to Indianapolis overall?

Tract 18097340700 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.
Q9

Was tract 18097340700 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. 14% 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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