Downtown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Evansville

At $444 a month, rents run 54% under what the rest of Evansville commands. 30% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Disability prevalence runs 53.1% against 31.5% nationally.

The poverty rate is 40%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10.

Cost burden runs 53% here against 41.1% across Vanderburgh County. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10.

This is renter territory: 74% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Housing insecurity runs 22.8% against 14.2% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 554 filings here across 10 tracked years.

Against the Vanderburgh County average of 3.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.9 points. Filings peaked in 2002 at 20.1% of renter households. 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 14.4% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #39,308 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

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