Columbus Eviction Risk: Lower

On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.5/10. 19% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Running cool, state political climate reads 2/10.

SNAP participation runs 5.7% against 15.2% nationally. Against the Bartholomew County average of 3.8, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.8 points. Food insecurity runs 10.4% against 17.8% nationally.

At $1,011 a month, rents run 13% under what the rest of Columbus commands. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Only 11% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 13% of average household income of $90,360, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Statewide the IN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

Poverty sits at 6%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. 39% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.