Purdue Research Park Eviction Risk: Elevated , West Lafayette
Tract 18157010208 · Tippecanoe County, IN · pop 5,274 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
Tract 18157010208 sits in the Purdue Research Park area of West Lafayette eviction risk, IN, carrying an eviction-risk score of 6.9/10. It is home to 5,274 residents. The severe-burden share is 41%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across West Lafayette and the region
Centroid at 40.4539, -86.9362 · click any tract to drill in
Why Purdue Research Park scores 6.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Purdue Research Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 34
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 43%Socioeconomic
- 3%Household composition
- 49%Racial/ethnic minority
- 74%Housing & transportation
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Purdue Research 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.
- 12.9%Housing insecurity
- 10.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 20.0%Food insecurity
- 11.7%SNAP enrollment
- 11.8%Transit barriers
- 8.9%No health insurance
- 20.3%Frequent mental distress
- 28.8%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Purdue Research Park
The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10. The poverty rate is 44%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.8/10.
Cost burden runs around two-thirds here against 49.7% across Tippecanoe County. Against the Tippecanoe County average of 4.5, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.4 points.
Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 9.6/10. This is renter territory: 79% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Set annual rent against average income of $41,025 and the ratio lands at 36%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.
On the national scale it lands near the 84th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. 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 $1,229, close to the West Lafayette average.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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