Happy Hollow Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Lafayette
Tract 18157000100 · Tippecanoe County, IN · pop 2,859 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
How risky is the Happy Hollow Heights area of Lafayette for landlords? Census tract 18157000100 scores 5.8/10, the Moderate tier. That is riskier than about 68% of US census tracts.
49% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 24% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $997 a month against an average household income of $43,511 a year, roughly 27% of income at the averages. Renters make up 56% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Lafayette and the region
Centroid at 40.4430, -86.8893 · click any tract to drill in
Why Happy Hollow Heights scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Happy Hollow Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 72
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 72%Socioeconomic
- 46%Household composition
- 33%Racial/ethnic minority
- 84%Housing & transportation
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Happy Hollow Heights. 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.
- 18.3%Housing insecurity
- 14.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 25.6%Food insecurity
- 18.3%SNAP enrollment
- 13.3%Transit barriers
- 13.9%No health insurance
- 21.4%Frequent mental distress
- 35.3%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Happy Hollow Heights
What moves this score most is tenant organizing strength at 9.3/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Lafayette eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Tippecanoe County average of 5.4 and above the Indiana statewide average of 4.7. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 18.3% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 14.4% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 72nd percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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