Pulaski Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Hammond

Pulling hardest the other way is eviction-process difficulty at 1.7/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10. Food insecurity runs 29.5% against 17.8% nationally.

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.8/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 14.7% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. At $1,027 a month, rents run 9% under what the rest of Hammond commands.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. That is riskier than roughly 55% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. At 23% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the IN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.8 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.