Lafayette Place Eviction Risk: Moderate , Fort Wayne

The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.9/10. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.5/10.

The severe-burden share is 17%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Food insecurity runs 26.4% against 17.8% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 179 evictions over 2 years of observation.

It sits 0.7 points above the Allen County average of 3.7. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.6% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Filings peaked in 2017 at 25.4% of renter households.

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 25.0% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #42,813 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.