Woodmar Eviction Risk: Lower , Hammond
Tract 18089021300 · Lake County, IN · pop 3,729 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Landlord eviction risk in census tract 18089021300 (the Woodmar area of Hammond, Indiana) comes in at 5.2/10, the Moderate tier. That is riskier than about 46% of US census tracts.
About 44% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 30% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $1,161 a month while the average household earns $63,547 a year, roughly 22% of income at the averages. About 29% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Hammond and the region
Centroid at 41.5884, -87.4906 · click any tract to drill in
Why Woodmar scores 3.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Woodmar compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 62
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 71%Socioeconomic
- 66%Household composition
- 81%Racial/ethnic minority
- 25%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: A: Best
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 9%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 6%Grade C
- 7%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.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 18.2%Housing insecurity
- 14.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 24.4%Food insecurity
- 15.0%SNAP enrollment
- 11.5%Transit barriers
- 13.2%No health insurance
- 18.3%Frequent mental distress
- 32.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Woodmar
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 7% of its area, sat in the redlined grade-D zone on 1930s HOLC maps, though its dominant grade was A ("Best"). That lending history still correlates with present-day rent burden.
The tract is Hispanic or Latino and Black and ranks around the 62nd 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.
About tract 18089021300
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