Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #39,308 of 84,120 nationally
North Franke Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Fort Wayne
Tract 18003000704 · Allen County, IN · pop 2,461 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
18003000704 is a census tract in the North Franke Park area of Fort Wayne, IN. It scores 4.6/10 for landlords. Population here is 2,461. Against Allen County at 38.5%, 55% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Risk score
4.6
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 34%
Stable renters 28%
Owners 38%
Tract context
Occupied units1,164
Renter share61.9%
SVI overall0.78
Poverty rate19.8%
Median income$49,277
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
68
th percentile
Elevated
Within county
81
th percentile
High
Within state
78
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Fort Wayne and the region
Centroid at 41.1104, -85.1612 · click any tract to drill in
Why North Franke Park 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
19.8% poverty · this tract
5.0
Supply constraint
$904 rent vs county FMR
2.5
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 North Franke Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 78
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 66%Socioeconomic
- 41%Household composition
- 50%Racial/ethnic minority
- 96%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
- 1%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)
- 69Total filings over 2 yrs
- 4.45%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.8%Peak (2017)
- 24Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
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.
- 13.7%Housing insecurity
- 10.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 18.5%Food insecurity
- 11.1%SNAP enrollment
- 9.9%Transit barriers
- 10.8%No health insurance
- 19.7%Frequent mental distress
- 31.7%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in North Franke Park
Severe burden reaches 29%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.9/10.
On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.5/10. The poverty rate is 20%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 69 filings here across 2 tracked years.
Against the Allen County average of 3.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.9 points. At $904 a month, rents run 10% under what the rest of Fort Wayne commands. The worst year on record was 2017, when 5.8% of renter households were served.
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 4.4% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 53% 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 18003000704
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18003000704?
Census tract 18003000704 in the North Franke Park 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 18003000704?
Median gross rent is $904/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 55% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 18003000704?
19.8% of residents in tract 18003000704 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,461.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 18003000704?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 78th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 66th, household 41th, minority 50th, housing 96th.
Q5
Is tract 18003000704 considered part of North Franke Park?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18003000704 fall within North Franke Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 18003000704?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 69 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 18003000704 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.45% of renter households, peaking at 5.8% in 2017. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 18003000704 struggle to pay rent?
About 13.7% 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. 10.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 18003000704 compare to Fort Wayne overall?
Tract 18003000704 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 18003000704 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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