Robertsdale Eviction Risk: Moderate , Hammond
Tract 18089020200 · Lake County, IN · pop 2,887 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
Census tract 18089020200 covers Robertsdale in Hammond, home to 2,887 residents. For landlords it grades 5.4/10, a moderate reading. That is riskier than roughly 54% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
About 48% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 30% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $948 a month against an average household income of $62,844 a year, roughly 18% of income at the averages. Renters make up 29% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Hammond and the region
Centroid at 41.6756, -87.5097 · click any tract to drill in
Why Robertsdale scores 4.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Robertsdale compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 58
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 44%Socioeconomic
- 85%Household composition
- 57%Racial/ethnic minority
- 46%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 9%Grade C
- 8%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Robertsdale. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 13.8%Housing insecurity
- 9.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 19.6%Food insecurity
- 10.7%SNAP enrollment
- 8.8%Transit barriers
- 13.8%No health insurance
- 16.2%Frequent mental distress
- 32.0%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Robertsdale
The heaviest input here is tenant organizing strength at 7.8/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Hammond 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 Lake County average of 5.2 and above the Indiana statewide average of 4.7. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
Part of this tract, about 8% of its area, sat in the redlined grade-D zone on 1930s HOLC maps, though its dominant grade was C ("Declining"). That lending history still correlates with present-day rent burden.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 58th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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