Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
New Kirkwood Park Eviction Risk: Lower , Fort Wayne
Tract 18003000300 · Allen County, IN · pop 3,293 · neighborhood within 1.3 mi
Census tract 18003000300 covers part of the New Kirkwood Park area of Fort Wayne, IN, and scores 3/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,293 residents. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 6%
Stable renters 11%
Owners 83%
Tract context
Occupied units1,300
Renter share17.0%
SVI overall0.16
Poverty rate9.9%
Median income$72,697
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
15
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
0
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
34
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Fort Wayne and the region
Centroid at 41.0934, -85.1217 · click any tract to drill in
Why New Kirkwood Park scores 3
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
9.9% poverty · this tract
2.5
Supply constraint
$923 rent vs county FMR
2.7
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 New Kirkwood Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 16
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 39%Socioeconomic
- 13%Household composition
- 13%Racial/ethnic minority
- 16%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 69%Grade B
- 20%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)
- 60Total filings over 2 yrs
- 8.77%Avg annual filing rate
- 11.1%Peak (2018)
- 38Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within New Kirkwood Park. 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.
- 9.7%Housing insecurity
- 7.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 11.2%Food insecurity
- 6.1%SNAP enrollment
- 6.6%Transit barriers
- 7.1%No health insurance
- 17.5%Frequent mental distress
- 26.0%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in New Kirkwood Park
Severe burden reaches 26%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.9/10.
Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.5/10. around a third of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Allen County average of 38.5%. SNAP participation runs 6.1% against 15.2% nationally.
The filing record is not thin: 60 evictions over 2 years of observation. It sits 0.7 points below the Allen County average of 3.7.
The worst year on record was 2018, when 11.1% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Fort Wayne. 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 8.8% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. At 17% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.
Social vulnerability reads 2.5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 18003000300
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18003000300?
Census tract 18003000300 in the New Kirkwood Park neighborhood scores 3/10 (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 18003000300?
Median gross rent is $923/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 33% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 18003000300?
9.9% of residents in tract 18003000300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,293.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 18003000300?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 16th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 39th, household 13th, minority 13th, housing 16th.
Q5
Is tract 18003000300 considered part of New Kirkwood Park?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18003000300 fall within New Kirkwood Park (neighborhood centroid within 1.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 18003000300?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 60 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 18003000300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 8.77% of renter households, peaking at 11.1% in 2018. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 18003000300 struggle to pay rent?
About 9.7% 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. 7.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 18003000300 compare to Fort Wayne overall?
Tract 18003000300 scores 3/10, right in line with 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 18003000300 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 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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Highest-risk tracts in Fort Wayne
Top eight tracts in Fort Wayne ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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4.6
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4.6
/ 10 · Moderate
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4.6
/ 10 · Moderate
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4.6
/ 10 · Moderate
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4.6
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4.6
/ 10 · Moderate
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