Ballard Eviction Risk: Moderate , Evansville

The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.6/10.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 2/10. The poverty rate is 22%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 875 filings here across 10 tracked years.

It sits 0.9 points above the Vanderburgh County average of 3.7. The worst year on record was 2005, when 20.4% of renter households were served.

This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Evansville. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 15.7% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #39,308 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

Average gross rent is $938, close to the Evansville 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.