Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #39,308 of 84,120 nationally
Wells Street Eviction Risk: Moderate , Fort Wayne
Tract 18003000600 · Allen County, IN · pop 1,923 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
18003000600 is a census tract in the Wells Street area of Fort Wayne, IN. It scores 4.6/10 for landlords. It is home to 1,923 residents. Severe burden reaches 27%. 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 20%
Stable renters 28%
Owners 52%
Tract context
Occupied units690
Renter share48.1%
SVI overall0.74
Poverty rate31.0%
Median income$36,875
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
72
th percentile
Elevated
Within county
72
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
78
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Fort Wayne and the region
Centroid at 41.0851, -85.1499 · click any tract to drill in
Why Wells Street scores 4.6
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
31.0% poverty · this tract
7.8
Supply constraint
$985 rent vs county FMR
3.2
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 Wells Street compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 74
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 78%Socioeconomic
- 69%Household composition
- 38%Racial/ethnic minority
- 66%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
- 70%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)
- 151Total filings over 2 yrs
- 15.04%Avg annual filing rate
- 15.5%Peak (2018)
- 78Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Wells Street. 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.
- 19.5%Housing insecurity
- 16.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 26.5%Food insecurity
- 18.9%SNAP enrollment
- 13.7%Transit barriers
- 14.1%No health insurance
- 23.1%Frequent mental distress
- 37.0%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Wells Street
Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.9/10.
The poverty rate is 31%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Annualized rent equals 32% of average household income of $36,875, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.5/10.
Food insecurity runs 26.5% against 17.8% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 151 evictions over 2 years of observation.
It sits 0.9 points above the Allen County average of 3.7. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 16.1% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.
Filings peaked in 2018 at 15.5% 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 15.0% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #39,308 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 18003000600
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18003000600?
Census tract 18003000600 in the Wells Street 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 18003000600?
Median gross rent is $985/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 41% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 18003000600?
31.0% of residents in tract 18003000600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,923.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 18003000600?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 74th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 78th, household 69th, minority 38th, housing 66th.
Q5
Is tract 18003000600 considered part of Wells Street?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18003000600 fall within Wells Street (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 18003000600?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 151 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 18003000600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 15.04% of renter households, peaking at 15.5% in 2018. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 18003000600 struggle to pay rent?
About 19.5% 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. 16.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 18003000600 compare to Fort Wayne overall?
Tract 18003000600 scores 4.6/10, 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 18003000600 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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