Bellair Eviction Risk: Moderate , Fort Wayne
Tract 18003000400 · Allen County, IN · pop 2,791 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi
Census tract 18003000400 covers part of the Bellair area of Fort Wayne, IN, and scores 4.6/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 2,791. The severe-burden share is 28%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Fort Wayne and the region
Centroid at 41.0850, -85.0967 · click any tract to drill in
Why Bellair scores 4.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Bellair compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 30
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 53%Socioeconomic
- 10%Household composition
- 47%Racial/ethnic minority
- 27%Housing & transportation
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
- 4%Grade B
- 18%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.
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)
- 156Total filings over 2 yrs
- 12.79%Avg annual filing rate
- 13.3%Peak (2017)
- 75Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Bellair. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 14.8%Housing insecurity
- 12.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 19.0%Food insecurity
- 12.8%SNAP enrollment
- 10.4%Transit barriers
- 9.5%No health insurance
- 20.9%Frequent mental distress
- 31.4%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Bellair
Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.9/10. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.5/10.
The poverty rate is 22%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Average gross rent is $815, 18% below the Fort Wayne average.
The filing record is not thin: 156 evictions over 2 years of observation. It sits 0.9 points above the Allen County average of 3.7.
The worst year on record was 2017, when 13.3% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 12.8% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 53% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
Rent takes 30% or more of income for 41% of renters.
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.
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