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Liberty Hills Eviction Risk: Lower , Fort Wayne

Tract 18003011604 · Allen County, IN · pop 4,649 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi

Tract 18003011604 sits in the Liberty Hills area of Fort Wayne eviction risk, IN, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3/10. Against Allen County at 38.5%, 18% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 6% Stable renters 28% Owners 66%
Tract context
Occupied units1,822
Renter share34.1%
SVI overall0.18
Poverty rate7.8%
Median income$96,324

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 2 tracts In Liberty Hills
Very Low
Within parent city
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#79 of 79 tracts In Fort Wayne
Very Low
Within county
32 th percentile
Rank, 32nd percentileLowHigh
#66 of 96 tracts In Allen County
Low
Within state
34 th percentile
Rank, 34th percentileLowHigh
#1,115 of 1,693 tracts In Indiana
Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across Fort Wayne and the region

Centroid at 41.0380, -85.2686 · click any tract to drill in

Why Liberty Hills scores 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
7.8% poverty · this tract
2.0
Supply constraint
$1,237 rent vs county FMR
5.3
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 Liberty Hills compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Liberty Hills risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.0This tracttract 0116043.2Fort Wayneparent city3.7Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 18

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

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)

  • 18Total filings over 2 yrs
  • 1.84%Avg annual filing rate
  • 2.3%Peak (2017)
  • 7Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Liberty Hills. 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 Liberty Hills

The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.9/10.

Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.5/10. Average gross rent is $1,237, 24% above the Fort Wayne average. SNAP participation runs 4.0% against 15.2% nationally.

The filing record is not thin: 18 evictions over 2 years of observation. Housing insecurity runs 7.0% against 14.2% nationally. It sits 0.7 points below the Allen County average of 3.7.

Filings peaked in 2017 at 2.3% of renter households. In a typical year about 1.8% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 2.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

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 18003011604

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18003011604?

Census tract 18003011604 in the Liberty Hills 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 18003011604?

Median gross rent is $1,237/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 18% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 18003011604?

7.8% of residents in tract 18003011604 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,649.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 18003011604?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 18th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 7th, household 58th, minority 23th, housing 28th.
Q5

Is tract 18003011604 considered part of Liberty Hills?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18003011604 fall within Liberty Hills (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 18003011604?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 18 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 18003011604 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.84% of renter households, peaking at 2.3% in 2017. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 18003011604 struggle to pay rent?

About 7.0% 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. 5.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 18003011604 compare to Fort Wayne overall?

Tract 18003011604 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.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Fort Wayne

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

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