Papermill Bluffs Eviction Risk: Moderate , Fort Wayne
Tract 18003004103 · Allen County, IN · pop 6,338 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
Tract 18003004103 covers Papermill Bluffs in Fort Wayne in Indiana. Home to 6,338 residents, it scores 5.1/10 on landlord eviction risk. That is riskier than about 43% of US census tracts.
About 48% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 22% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,080 a month against an average household income of $56,011 a year, roughly 23% of income at the averages. About 85% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Fort Wayne and the region
Centroid at 41.1299, -85.1063 · click any tract to drill in
Why Papermill Bluffs scores 4.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Papermill Bluffs compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 71
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 57%Socioeconomic
- 44%Household composition
- 59%Racial/ethnic minority
- 90%Housing & transportation
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)
- 574Total filings over 2 yrs
- 12.78%Avg annual filing rate
- 16.3%Peak (2018)
- 365Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Papermill Bluffs. 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.
- 12.0%Housing insecurity
- 9.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 15.7%Food insecurity
- 9.1%SNAP enrollment
- 9.2%Transit barriers
- 8.4%No health insurance
- 19.2%Frequent mental distress
- 29.6%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Papermill Bluffs
What moves this score most is economic stress at 5.9/10. 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 above the Allen County average of 4.6 and above the Indiana statewide average of 4.7. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 12.0% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 9.6% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 71st 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.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 18003004103
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