River Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Mishawaka
Tract 18141001500 · St. Joseph County, IN · pop 3,359 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
Census tract 18141001500 covers part of the River Park area of South Bend, IN, and scores 4.6/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,359 residents. Severe burden reaches 34%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Mishawaka and the region
Centroid at 41.6629, -86.2143 · click any tract to drill in
Why River Park scores 4.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow River Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 77
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 90%Socioeconomic
- 49%Household composition
- 50%Racial/ethnic minority
- 61%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 5%Grade B
- 64%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
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.
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
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 35Total filings over 1 yrs
- 6.82%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.8%Peak (2015)
- 35Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 252Total filings 2020-21
- 3.3Avg monthly (observed)
- 4.2Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.78×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Richmond, VA as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within River Park. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 17.0%Housing insecurity
- 13.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 22.6%Food insecurity
- 15.3%SNAP enrollment
- 12.0%Transit barriers
- 11.3%No health insurance
- 22.3%Frequent mental distress
- 37.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in River Park
The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10. The poverty rate is 26%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10. Cost burden runs 48% here against 41.2% across St. Joseph County.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 35 filings here across 1 tracked years. It sits 0.8 points above the St. Joseph County average of 3.8. At $902 a month, rents run 13% under what the rest of South Bend commands.
The worst year on record was 2015, when 6.8% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for South Bend. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 6.8% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 53rd 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.
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.
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