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Neighborhood · Ranked #39,308 of 84,120 nationally

Riverside Eviction Risk: Moderate , Evansville

Tract 18163001200 · Vanderburgh County, IN · pop 1,475 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi

18163001200 is a census tract in the Riverside area of Evansville, IN. It scores 4.6/10 for landlords. Severe burden reaches 53%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
4.6
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 39% Stable renters 15% Owners 46%
Tract context
Occupied units797
Renter share54.3%
SVI overall0.64
Poverty rate32.7%
Median income$29,496

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 3 tracts In Riverside
Moderate
Within parent city
94 th percentile
Rank, 94th percentileLowHigh
#4 of 47 tracts In Evansville
Very High
Within county
95 th percentile
Rank, 95th percentileLowHigh
#4 of 59 tracts In Vanderburgh County
Very High
Within state
78 th percentile
Rank, 78th percentileLowHigh
#370 of 1,693 tracts In Indiana
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Evansville and the region

Centroid at 37.9605, -87.5616 · click any tract to drill in

Why Riverside scores 4.6

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Evansville
3.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.5
State political climate
Indiana legislature & governorship
2.0
Economic stress
32.7% poverty · this tract
8.2
Supply constraint
$891 rent vs county FMR
3.5
Rent control risk
Inherited from Evansville
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Evansville
2.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Evansville
2.0

How Riverside compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Riverside risk score vs. parent city / county / state4.6This tracttract 0012003.2Evansvilleparent city3.7Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 64

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Eviction filings

Court-record eviction history

Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1

Historic baseline (2000–2018)

  • 922Total filings over 10 yrs
  • 18.60%Avg annual filing rate
  • 26.3%Peak (2002)
  • 35Filings in 2013 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2002 to 2013
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 18163001200
Filings dropped 76% over the past 10 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Riverside. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress

Eviction-adjacent indicators

Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Riverside

72% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, far above the Vanderburgh County average of 41.1%. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Annualized rent equals 36% of average household income of $29,496, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

The poverty rate is 33%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.6/10. Running hot, economic stress reads 8.2/10.

Food insecurity runs 29.0% against 17.8% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 922 evictions over 10 years of observation.

Against the Vanderburgh County average of 3.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.9 points. SNAP participation runs 22.2% against 15.2% nationally.

The worst year on record was 2002, when 26.3% of renter households were served. At $891 a month, rents run 9% under what the rest of Evansville commands.

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.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 18163001200

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18163001200?

Census tract 18163001200 in the Riverside neighborhood scores 4.6/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 18163001200?

Median gross rent is $891/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 72% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 18163001200?

32.7% of residents in tract 18163001200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,475.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 18163001200?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 64th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 76th, household 39th, minority 61th, housing 49th.
Q5

Is tract 18163001200 considered part of Riverside?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18163001200 fall within Riverside (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 18163001200?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 922 eviction filings across 10 validated years in tract 18163001200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 18.60% of renter households, peaking at 26.3% in 2002. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 18163001200 struggle to pay rent?

About 21.0% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 17.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 18163001200 compare to Evansville overall?

Tract 18163001200 scores 4.6/10, higher than the parent city of Evansville at 3.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Evansville eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9

Was tract 18163001200 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Evansville

Top eight tracts in Evansville ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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