Portage Eviction Risk: Moderate

The clearest offset is eviction-process difficulty at 1.6/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10. Against the Porter County average of 3.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points.

The poverty rate is 23%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Against Porter County at 38.1%, 45% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.7/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 45 filings here across 2 tracked years.

At $1,102 a month, rents run 10% under what the rest of Portage commands. The worst year on record was 2014, when 3.8% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 2.9% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 65th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 5.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the IN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.3 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.