Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #65,414 of 84,120 nationally
Ludwig Park Eviction Risk: Lower , Fort Wayne
Tract 18003980002 · Allen County, IN · pop 17 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
Census tract 18003980002 covers part of the Ludwig Park area of Fort Wayne, IN, and scores 3.1/10 on landlord eviction risk. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.
Risk score
3.1
Lower
Confidence 60% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 0%
Stable renters 0%
Owners 100%
Tract context
Occupied units8
SVI overall0.03
Poverty rate0.0%
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
33
th percentile
Low
Within county
41
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
37
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Fort Wayne and the region
Centroid at 41.1267, -85.1598 · click any tract to drill in
Why Ludwig Park scores 3.1
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
0.0% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
tract rent vs county FMR
5.0
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 Ludwig Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 3
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 32%Socioeconomic
- 13%Household composition
- 0%Racial/ethnic minority
- 0%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)
- 11Total filings over 2 yrs
- 78.57%Avg annual filing rate
- 85.7%Peak (2018)
- 6Filings 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.
- 8.9%Housing insecurity
- 6.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 10.3%Food insecurity
- 4.7%SNAP enrollment
- 6.1%Transit barriers
- 7.6%No health insurance
- 16.5%Frequent mental distress
- 27.0%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Ludwig Park
On the softer side, economic stress reads 1/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.9/10.
SNAP participation runs 4.7% against 15.2% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 11 evictions over 2 years of observation. Food insecurity runs 10.3% against 17.8% nationally.
It sits 0.6 points below the Allen County average of 3.7. The worst year on record was 2018, when 85.7% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 78.6% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 22% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.2/10.
Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. Model confidence here is 60%, lower than typical because some ACS inputs for this tract carry wide margins of error, so read the score as a band, not a point.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 18003980002
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18003980002?
Census tract 18003980002 in the Ludwig Park neighborhood scores 3.1/10 (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 poverty rate in tract 18003980002?
0.0% of residents in tract 18003980002 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 17.
Q3
How socially vulnerable is tract 18003980002?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 3th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 32th, household 13th, minority 0th, housing 0th.
Q4
Is tract 18003980002 considered part of Ludwig Park?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18003980002 fall within Ludwig Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 18003980002?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 11 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 18003980002 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 78.57% of renter households, peaking at 85.7% in 2018. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 18003980002 struggle to pay rent?
About 8.9% 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. 6.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 18003980002 compare to Fort Wayne overall?
Tract 18003980002 scores 3.1/10, 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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