Elston Eviction Risk: Moderate , Lafayette

What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.3/10. The poverty rate is 32%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. This is renter territory: 71% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.8/10. Against Tippecanoe County at 49.7%, 59% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Running cool, state political climate reads 2/10. Against the Tippecanoe County average of 4.5, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.9 points. That is riskier than roughly 70% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Social vulnerability reads 7.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the IN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

Average gross rent is $1,088, close to the Lafayette average. Annual rent works out to 31% of average household income of $42,570.

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.