Tecumseh Eviction Risk: Moderate , Lafayette

80% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Severe burden reaches 23%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.8/10. The poverty rate is 28%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Running cool, state political climate reads 2/10. It sits 0.9 points above the Tippecanoe County average of 4.5. 54% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Tippecanoe County average of 49.7%.

Food insecurity runs 24.9% against 17.8% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.2% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the IN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.