Old Southside Eviction Risk: Moderate , Indianapolis
Tract 18097356900 · Marion County, IN · pop 1,948 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
Census tract 18097356900 covers part of the Old Southside area of Indianapolis, IN, and scores 5.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 1,948. The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 8.7/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Indianapolis and the region
Centroid at 39.7472, -86.1543 · click any tract to drill in
Why Old Southside scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Old Southside compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 76
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 72%Socioeconomic
- 46%Household composition
- 45%Racial/ethnic minority
- 90%Housing & transportation
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
- 1%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 60%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.
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)
- 249Total filings 2020-21
- 3.2Avg monthly (observed)
- 4.9Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.66×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.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Old Southside. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 15.0%Housing insecurity
- 12.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 20.8%Food insecurity
- 14.6%SNAP enrollment
- 11.0%Transit barriers
- 11.6%No health insurance
- 20.5%Frequent mental distress
- 32.1%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Old Southside
The severe-burden share is 22%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The poverty rate is 31%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10.
Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.1/10. It sits 1.2 points above the Marion County average of 4.2.
41% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Marion County average of 46.3%. Average gross rent is $1,030, 11% 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. On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Statewide the IN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.
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.
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