Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #57,812 of 84,120 nationally
Highland Park Forest Eviction Risk: Lower , Fort Wayne
Tract 18003000100 · Allen County, IN · pop 2,675 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
With a score of 3.5/10, tract 18003000100 in the Highland Park Forest area of Fort Wayne, IN reads lower for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,675 residents. Severe burden reaches 52%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
3.5
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 14%
Stable renters 6%
Owners 80%
Tract context
Occupied units1,066
Renter share20.2%
SVI overall0.27
Poverty rate12.6%
Median income$65,417
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
49
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
54
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
49
th percentile
Moderate
Geographic context
Risk heat across Fort Wayne and the region
Centroid at 41.1032, -85.1257 · click any tract to drill in
Why Highland Park Forest scores 3.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Fort Wayne
3.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.4
State political climate
Indiana legislature & governorship
2.0
Economic stress
12.6% poverty · this tract
3.2
Supply constraint
$1,282 rent vs county FMR
5.7
Rent control risk
Inherited from Fort Wayne
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Fort Wayne
1.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Fort Wayne
2.0
How Highland Park Forest compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 27
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 43%Socioeconomic
- 62%Household composition
- 34%Racial/ethnic minority
- 7%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 71%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
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)
- 39Total filings over 2 yrs
- 5.35%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.0%Peak (2018)
- 22Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Highland Park Forest. 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.
- 11.3%Housing insecurity
- 8.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 14.1%Food insecurity
- 8.1%SNAP enrollment
- 7.7%Transit barriers
- 8.9%No health insurance
- 18.6%Frequent mental distress
- 29.7%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Highland Park Forest
Cost burden runs 68% here against 38.5% across Allen County. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.
Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.9/10. Average gross rent is $1,282, 28% above the Fort Wayne average.
Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.5/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 39 filings here across 2 tracked years.
SNAP participation runs 8.1% against 15.2% nationally. Filings peaked in 2018 at 6.0% of renter households.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 5.3% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 31% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 18003000100
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18003000100?
Census tract 18003000100 in the Highland Park Forest neighborhood scores 3.5/10 (Lower 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 18003000100?
Median gross rent is $1,282/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 68% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 18003000100?
12.6% of residents in tract 18003000100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,675.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 18003000100?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 27th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 43th, household 62th, minority 34th, housing 7th.
Q5
Is tract 18003000100 considered part of Highland Park Forest?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18003000100 fall within Highland Park Forest (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 18003000100?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 39 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 18003000100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.35% of renter households, peaking at 6.0% in 2018. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 18003000100 struggle to pay rent?
About 11.3% 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. 8.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 18003000100 compare to Fort Wayne overall?
Tract 18003000100 scores 3.5/10, higher than the parent city of Fort Wayne at 3.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Fort Wayne eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 18003000100 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.
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