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Neighborhood · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally

Indian Hills Eviction Risk: Moderate , Lawrence

Tract 20045000302 · Douglas County, KS · pop 2,701 · neighborhood within 1.2 mi

Census tract 20045000302 covers part of the Indian Hills area of Lawrence, KS, and scores 5.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,701 residents. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10.

Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 48% Stable renters 41% Owners 11%
Tract context
Occupied units1,133
Renter share89.0%
SVI overall0.52
Poverty rate40.9%
Median income$52,667

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 7 tracts In Indian Hills
Very High
Within parent city
83 th percentile
Rank, 83rd percentileLowHigh
#5 of 24 tracts In Lawrence
High
Within county
85 th percentile
Rank, 85th percentileLowHigh
#5 of 27 tracts In Douglas County
High
Within state
99 th percentile
Rank, 99th percentileLowHigh
#7 of 829 tracts In Kansas
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Lawrence and the region

Centroid at 38.9531, -95.2413 · click any tract to drill in

Why Indian Hills scores 5.4

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Lawrence
6.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.0
State political climate
Kansas legislature & governorship
2.0
Economic stress
40.9% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$977 rent vs county FMR
3.6
Rent control risk
Inherited from Lawrence
1.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
4.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Lawrence
5.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Lawrence
3.5

How Indian Hills compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Indian Hills risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.4This tracttract 0003024.0Lawrenceparent city4.1Countyavg tract in county3.7Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 52

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

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Indian Hills. 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 Indian Hills

The severe-burden share is 34%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The poverty rate is 41%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. This is renter territory: 89% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2/10. Against the Douglas County average of 4.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points.

54% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Douglas County average of 47.5%. Average gross rent is $977, 10% below the Lawrence average.

That is riskier than roughly 70% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 5.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the KS average is 3.7, so this tract runs 1.7 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Annual rent works out to 22% of average household income of $52,667.

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 20045000302

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 20045000302?

Census tract 20045000302 in the Indian Hills neighborhood scores 5.4/10 (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 20045000302?

Median gross rent is $977/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 54% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 20045000302?

40.9% of residents in tract 20045000302 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,701.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 20045000302?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 52th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 74th, household 4th, minority 53th, housing 66th.
Q5

Is tract 20045000302 considered part of Indian Hills?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 20045000302 fall within Indian Hills (neighborhood centroid within 1.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 20045000302 struggle to pay rent?

About 13.1% 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. 11.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 20045000302 compare to Lawrence overall?

Tract 20045000302 scores 5.4/10, higher than the parent city of Lawrence at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Lawrence eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Lawrence

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

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