Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Coves of Northbrook Eviction Risk: Lower , Fort Wayne
Tract 18003010603 · Allen County, IN · pop 1,776 · neighborhood within 1.3 mi
Tract 18003010603 sits in the Coves of Northbrook area of Fort Wayne eviction risk, IN, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3/10. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 5%
Stable renters 10%
Owners 85%
Tract context
Occupied units775
Renter share14.3%
SVI overall0.13
Poverty rate4.7%
Median income$77,204
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
19
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
1
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
34
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Fort Wayne and the region
Centroid at 41.1622, -85.1795 · click any tract to drill in
Why Coves of Northbrook scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal 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
4.7% poverty · this tract
1.2
Supply constraint
$1,366 rent vs county FMR
6.4
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 Coves of Northbrook compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 13
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 33%Socioeconomic
- 29%Household composition
- 20%Racial/ethnic minority
- 6%Housing & transportation
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)
- 8Total filings over 2 yrs
- 4.60%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.8%Peak (2018)
- 5Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
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.
- 9.7%Housing insecurity
- 7.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 12.0%Food insecurity
- 6.6%SNAP enrollment
- 6.7%Transit barriers
- 7.7%No health insurance
- 17.1%Frequent mental distress
- 30.0%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Coves of Northbrook
At $1,366 a month, rents run 37% over what the rest of Fort Wayne commands. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.9/10.
Running cool, economic stress reads 1.2/10. Against Allen County at 38.5%, roughly one in three of renters here are cost-burdened. Severe burden reaches 12%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
SNAP participation runs 6.6% against 15.2% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 8 filings here across 2 tracked years. The voucher gap is 13.9%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.
Against the Allen County average of 3.7, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.7 points. The worst year on record was 2018, when 5.8% of renter households were served.
In a typical year about 4.6% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 18003010603
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18003010603?
Census tract 18003010603 in the Coves of Northbrook neighborhood scores 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 18003010603?
Median gross rent is $1,366/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 32% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 18003010603?
4.7% of residents in tract 18003010603 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,776.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 18003010603?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 13th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 33th, household 29th, minority 20th, housing 6th.
Q5
Is tract 18003010603 considered part of Coves of Northbrook?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18003010603 fall within Coves of Northbrook (neighborhood centroid within 1.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 18003010603?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 8 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 18003010603 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.60% of renter households, peaking at 5.8% in 2018. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 18003010603 struggle to pay rent?
About 9.7% 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. 7.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 18003010603 compare to Fort Wayne overall?
Tract 18003010603 scores 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.
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