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Neighborhood · Ranked #61,558 of 84,120 nationally

Avalon Eviction Risk: Lower , Fort Wayne

Tract 18003003901 · Allen County, IN · pop 3,359 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi

Census tract 18003003901 covers part of the Avalon area of Fort Wayne, IN, and scores 3.3/10 on landlord eviction risk. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.

Risk score
3.3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 15% Stable renters 20% Owners 65%
Tract context
Occupied units1,567
Renter share35.0%
SVI overall0.44
Poverty rate8.1%
Median income$55,031

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#3 of 3 tracts In Avalon
Very Low
Within parent city
39 th percentile
Rank, 39th percentileLowHigh
#49 of 79 tracts In Fort Wayne
Low
Within county
46 th percentile
Rank, 46th percentileLowHigh
#52 of 96 tracts In Allen County
Moderate
Within state
43 th percentile
Rank, 43rd percentileLowHigh
#964 of 1,693 tracts In Indiana
Moderate
Geographic context

Risk heat across Fort Wayne and the region

Centroid at 41.0228, -85.1607 · click any tract to drill in

Why Avalon scores 3.3

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local 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
8.1% poverty · this tract
2.0
Supply constraint
$940 rent vs county FMR
2.8
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 Avalon compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Avalon risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.3This tracttract 0039013.2Fort Wayneparent city3.7Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 44

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

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.

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)

  • 85Total filings over 2 yrs
  • 9.47%Avg annual filing rate
  • 9.8%Peak (2017)
  • 41Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Avalon. 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Avalon

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.9/10. Severe burden reaches 22%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.5/10. Cost burden runs 44% here against 38.5% across Allen County. The filing record is not thin: 85 evictions over 2 years of observation.

The worst year on record was 2017, when 9.8% 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 9.5% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #61,558 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5/10. It tracks the Allen County average of 3.7 closely.

Average gross rent is $940, close to the Fort Wayne average. Annual rent works out to 20% of average household income of $55,031. 35% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 18003003901

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18003003901?

Census tract 18003003901 in the Avalon neighborhood scores 3.3/10 (Lower 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 18003003901?

Median gross rent is $940/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 44% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 18003003901?

8.1% of residents in tract 18003003901 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,359.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 18003003901?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 44th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 54th, household 38th, minority 27th, housing 43th.
Q5

Is tract 18003003901 considered part of Avalon?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18003003901 fall within Avalon (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 18003003901?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 85 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 18003003901 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 9.47% of renter households, peaking at 9.8% in 2017. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 18003003901 struggle to pay rent?

About 11.6% 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. 9.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 18003003901 compare to Fort Wayne overall?

Tract 18003003901 scores 3.3/10, right in line with 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 18003003901 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.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Fort Wayne

Top eight tracts in Fort Wayne ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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