Forest-Ivanhoe Historic District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Hammond
Tract 18089021600 · Lake County, IN · pop 2,754 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
In the Forest-Ivanhoe Historic District area of Hammond, census tract 18089021600 scores 4.5/10 for eviction risk. That is riskier than about 23% of US census tracts.
About 13% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a modest level, and 13% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,383 monthly, set against $72,772 in average yearly household income, roughly 23% of income at the averages. Renters make up 22% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Hammond and the region
Centroid at 41.5802, -87.5137 · click any tract to drill in
Why Forest-Ivanhoe Historic District scores 4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Forest-Ivanhoe Historic District compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 25
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 21%Socioeconomic
- 19%Household composition
- 67%Racial/ethnic minority
- 34%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 69%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 0%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.
- 16.0%Housing insecurity
- 11.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 20.4%Food insecurity
- 10.8%SNAP enrollment
- 9.8%Transit barriers
- 13.1%No health insurance
- 17.7%Frequent mental distress
- 29.4%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Forest-Ivanhoe Historic District
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 below the Lake County average of 5.2 and in line with the Indiana statewide average of 4.7. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 16.0% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 11.4% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is White and Hispanic or Latino and ranks around the 25th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 18089021600
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Highest-risk tracts in Hammond
Top eight tracts in Hammond ranked by composite eviction-risk score.