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Neighborhood · Ranked #28,095 of 84,120 nationally

Washington Place Eviction Risk: Moderate , Indianapolis

Tract 18097360602 · Marion County, IN · pop 6,522 · neighborhood within 1.2 mi

With a score of 5.3/10, tract 18097360602 in the Washington Place area of Indianapolis, IN reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 6,522 residents. Cost burden runs 64% here against 46.3% across Marion County.

Risk score
5.3
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 32% Stable renters 18% Owners 50%
Tract context
Occupied units2,435
Renter share50.2%
SVI overall0.96
Poverty rate19.7%
Median income$42,074

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 3 tracts In Washington Place
Very High
Within parent city
73 th percentile
Rank, 73rd percentileLowHigh
#64 of 231 tracts In Indianapolis
Elevated
Within county
74 th percentile
Rank, 74th percentileLowHigh
#67 of 253 tracts In Marion County
Elevated
Within state
88 th percentile
Rank, 88th percentileLowHigh
#207 of 1,693 tracts In Indiana
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Indianapolis and the region

Centroid at 39.7836, -86.0366 · click any tract to drill in

Why Washington Place scores 5.3

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
19.7% poverty · this tract
4.9
Supply constraint
$994 rent vs county FMR
2.7
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 Washington Place compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Washington Place risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.3This tracttract 3606024.0Indianapolisparent city4.2Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 96

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

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.

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)

  • 887Total filings 2020-21
  • 11.5Avg monthly (observed)
  • 13.7Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.84×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

Within Washington Place. 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 Washington Place

26% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 8.7/10. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2/10.

Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.1/10. Against the Marion County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. The poverty rate is 20%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Food insecurity runs 26.4% against 17.8% nationally. At $994 a month, rents run 14% under what the rest of Indianapolis commands. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.0% 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 C ("Definitely Declining"). 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. On the national scale it lands near the 67th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.6/10. Statewide the IN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.4 points hotter.

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 18097360602

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18097360602?

Census tract 18097360602 in the Washington Place neighborhood scores 5.3/10 (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 18097360602?

Median gross rent is $994/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 64% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 18097360602?

19.7% of residents in tract 18097360602 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,522.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 18097360602?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 96th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 94th, household 95th, minority 67th, housing 86th.
Q5

Is tract 18097360602 considered part of Washington Place?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18097360602 fall within Washington Place (neighborhood centroid within 1.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 18097360602 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.84× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Indianapolis eviction risk, IN), 2020-2021.
Q7

What share of households in tract 18097360602 struggle to pay rent?

About 18.1% 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. 15.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 18097360602 compare to Indianapolis overall?

Tract 18097360602 scores 5.3/10, 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 18097360602 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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