Portage Eviction Risk: Moderate

24% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Pulling hardest the other way is eviction-process difficulty at 1.6/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 2/10.

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2.1/10. The filing record is not thin: 99 evictions over 2 years of observation. SNAP participation runs 7.4% against 15.2% nationally.

It sits 0.7 points above the Porter County average of 3.8. Average gross rent is $1,099, 11% below the Portage average.

Filings peaked in 2014 at 35.3% of renter households. In a typical year about 29.1% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 51% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. At 4% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.