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

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.

Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 13% Stable renters 19% Owners 68%
Tract context
Occupied units912
Renter share31.9%
SVI overall0.76
Poverty rate30.8%
Median income$46,474

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 3 tracts In Old Southside
Very High
Within parent city
74 th percentile
Rank, 74th percentileLowHigh
#60 of 231 tracts In Indianapolis
Elevated
Within county
99 th percentile
Rank, 99th percentileLowHigh
#3 of 253 tracts In Marion County
Very 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 39.7472, -86.1543 · click any tract to drill in

Why Old Southside 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
30.8% poverty · this tract
7.7
Supply constraint
$1,030 rent vs county FMR
3.0
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 Old Southside compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Old Southside risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.4This tracttract 3569004.0Indianapolisparent city4.2Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 76

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)

  • 249Total filings 2020-21
  • 3.2Avg monthly (observed)
  • 4.9Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.66×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 Old Southside. 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 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.

Frequently asked

About tract 18097356900

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18097356900?

Census tract 18097356900 in the Old Southside 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 18097356900?

Median gross rent is $1,030/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 41% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 18097356900?

30.8% of residents in tract 18097356900 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,948.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 18097356900?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 76th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 72th, household 46th, minority 45th, housing 90th.
Q5

Is tract 18097356900 considered part of Old Southside?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18097356900 fall within Old Southside (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 18097356900 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.66× 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 18097356900 struggle to pay rent?

About 15.0% 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. 12.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 18097356900 compare to Indianapolis overall?

Tract 18097356900 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 18097356900 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. 60% 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.
Sibling tracts

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

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