Southwood Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Fort Wayne
Tract 18003003200 · Allen County, IN · pop 5,333 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Tract 18003003200, home to 5,333 residents in Southwood Park in Fort Wayne, scores 4.1/10 for landlord eviction risk. That is riskier than about 14% of US census tracts.
19% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a modest level, and 5% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,296 a month against an average household income of $63,375 a year, roughly 25% of income at the averages. Renters make up 17% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Fort Wayne and the region
Centroid at 41.0406, -85.1498 · click any tract to drill in
Why Southwood Park scores 4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Southwood Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 57
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 56%Socioeconomic
- 82%Household composition
- 59%Racial/ethnic minority
- 28%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: A: Best
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 19%Grade A
- 17%Grade B
- 0%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)
- 119Total filings over 2 yrs
- 25.00%Avg annual filing rate
- 29.8%Peak (2018)
- 71Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Southwood Park. 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.
- 12.9%Housing insecurity
- 9.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 16.3%Food insecurity
- 9.3%SNAP enrollment
- 8.6%Transit barriers
- 10.1%No health insurance
- 18.1%Frequent mental distress
- 29.8%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Southwood Park
The heaviest input here is supply constraint at 5.8/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Fort Wayne eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores below the Allen County average of 4.6 and below the Indiana statewide average of 4.7. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
The tract is White and multiracial or other-race and ranks around the 57th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
In CDC survey modeling, about 12.9% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 9.7% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 18003003200
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