Indianapolis Eviction Risk: Moderate

Against Marion County at 46.3%, 72% of renters here are cost-burdened. The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10.

Food insecurity runs 55.9% against 17.8% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 35.3% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The poverty rate is 54%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Annualized rent equals 45% of average household income of $26,144, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.7/10.

This is renter territory: 69% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Running cool, state political climate reads 2/10.

It sits 1.2 points above the Marion County average of 4.2. At $981 a month, rents run 15% under what the rest of Indianapolis commands.

This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Indianapolis. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.