3 census tracts · pop 5,839 · pop-weighted Eviction Risk Score 4.6/10
· range 4.6–4.6
Kennedy Park takes in 3 census tracts of South Bend, IN and houses 5,839 people. It carries an Eviction Risk Score of 4.6/10, in the Moderate tier. The severe-burden share is 42%. Those renters are past the 50% mark, and they miss rent for reasons that have nothing to do with willingness to pay.
Cost burden runs 58% against 30.2% citywide, putting Kennedy Park 27.6% over its own city. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure, at 1/10. The poverty rate is 35%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest.
SNAP participation is 36.4% of households versus 15.2% nationally. On the high side is economic stress at 8.8/10.
Disability prevalence reaches 45.6% against a 31.5% national average, which raises the odds a reasonable-accommodation request accompanies any dispute. Filings are well documented here: 180 across 3 observed tracts.
Running cool is eviction-process difficulty, at 2.5/10. Filing activity peaked in 2015 at 30.4% of renter households. Among the 12 mapped neighborhoods of South Bend, it ranks #1 by risk, the upper third.
Judgments average 18.8% of renter households a year, the share of filings that actually convert to an order. Social vulnerability runs high at 8.5/10, concentrating the disaster- and displacement-exposure this model treats as a lagging risk input.
Its 3 tracts score within 0 points of one another, so the area figure travels well to individual addresses.
With little internal variation, 4.6/10 is a fair proxy for any address inside the boundary. The number is rebuilt whenever its ACS, court-record, or statutory inputs change.
Risk score
4.6
Moderate
3 tracts · population-weighted
Kennedy Park vs South BendHow this neighborhood stacks against the citywide average
Single-parent HH, disability, language barriers, age 17- / 65+
Racial/ethnic minority83%ile
Hispanic + non-white share of population
Housing & transport49%ile
Multi-unit structures, mobile homes, crowding, no vehicle
Eviction filings · Princeton Eviction Lab
Court-record eviction history in Kennedy Park
Aggregated across 3 validated constituent tracts. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households, pop-weighted.
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
180Total filings (sum)
25.27%Avg annual filing rate
30.4%Peak year (2015)
25.27%Latest filed (2015)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
795Total filings 2020-21
3.6Avg monthly observed
5.2Pre-pandemic baseline
0.68×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran far below baseline. Tracked under Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Richmond, VA).
CDC PLACES 2023 · pop-weighted
Eviction-adjacent indicators in Kennedy Park
Average across all constituent tracts, population-weighted. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh) crude prevalence.
31.0%Housing insecurity
26.8%Utility shutoff threat
42.5%Food insecurity
36.0%SNAP enrollment
16.1%No health insurance
45.3%Any disability
Frequently asked
About Kennedy Park
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for Kennedy Park?
Kennedy Park scores 4.6/10 (Moderate tier) across 3 census tracts. The pop-weighted Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income and poverty signals.
Q2
How does Kennedy Park compare to South Bend overall?
Kennedy Park scores 1.4 points higher than South Bend overall (3.2/10). Renters spend 58% of income on rent vs 30% citywide. Average rent: $1,013 vs $1,033.
Q3
What is the average rent in Kennedy Park?
Average gross rent in Kennedy Park is $1,013/month (pop-weighted across 3 census tracts, ACS 5-year 2023). 58% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q4
What percentage of Kennedy Park residents are renters?
46% of Kennedy Park households are renter-occupied (vs 40% in South Bend). The neighborhood has 5,839 residents.
Q5
Is Kennedy Park a high social-vulnerability area?
Kennedy Park sits in the 84th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index (highly vulnerable). The index combines poverty, unemployment, household composition, racial/ethnic minority share, and housing/transportation factors across all US census tracts.
Q6
Which tracts in Kennedy Park have the highest eviction risk?
The highest-risk constituent tract in Kennedy Park is census tract 18141000400 (score 4.6/10). Across the 3 tracts in this neighborhood the score ranges from 4.6 to 4.6, a spread of 0 points.
Q7
How safe is Kennedy Park for landlords?
Kennedy Park carries a moderate-tier eviction-risk profile for landlords (4.6/10). Pop-weighted across 3 constituent tracts, the score blends parent-city rent-control posture, county eviction-process timelines, and tract-specific rent-to-income / poverty signals. Compared to South Bend as a whole (3.2/10), this neighborhood is higher-risk.
Q8
What is the demographic breakdown of Kennedy Park?
Kennedy Park has 5,798 residents. Top groups: Black (non-Hispanic) (50.6%), White (non-Hispanic) (24.9%), Hispanic / Latino (19.8%). Source: ACS 5-year 2023, table B03002.
