Laurel Ridge Eviction Risk: Lower , Fort Wayne
Tract 18003010307 · Allen County, IN · pop 5,428 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Tract 18003010307 covers Laurel Ridge in Fort Wayne in Indiana. Home to 5,428 residents, it scores 4.6/10 on landlord eviction risk. That is riskier than roughly 26% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
About 44% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 44% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,458 monthly, set against $116,922 in average yearly household income, roughly 15% of income at the averages. Renters make up 3% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Fort Wayne and the region
Centroid at 41.1857, -85.1787 · click any tract to drill in
Why Laurel Ridge scores 2.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Laurel Ridge compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 11
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 7%Socioeconomic
- 45%Household composition
- 31%Racial/ethnic minority
- 15%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)
- 6Total filings over 2 yrs
- 3.37%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.5%Peak (2018)
- 4Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 8.0%Housing insecurity
- 6.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 9.0%Food insecurity
- 4.4%SNAP enrollment
- 5.3%Transit barriers
- 6.2%No health insurance
- 16.0%Frequent mental distress
- 22.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Laurel Ridge
The heaviest input here is supply constraint at 7.2/10. 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 about the same as the Allen County average of 4.6 and in line with the Indiana statewide average of 4.7. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 6 eviction filings here over 2 tracked years, with about 3.4% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 4.5% of renter households in 2018.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 11th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 18003010307
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