West Lafayette Eviction Risk: Elevated

Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 9.6/10. 28% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Against the Tippecanoe County average of 4.5, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.4 points. On the high side, housing-court posture reads 9.5/10. The poverty rate is 37%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Set annual rent against average income of $40,143 and the ratio lands at 35%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Against Tippecanoe County at 49.7%, 56% of renters here are cost-burdened. That is riskier than roughly 84% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6/10. Statewide the IN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 3.0 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

Average gross rent is $1,164, close to the West Lafayette average.

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.