Columbia Center Eviction Risk: Moderate , Hammond

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10. Severe burden reaches 16%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.8/10.

At $1,277 a month, rents run 13% over what the rest of Hammond commands. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Lake Co. Gary. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. On the national scale it lands near the 42nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

Rent takes 30% or more of income for 45% of renters. It tracks the Lake County average of 4.4 closely. Annual rent works out to 25% of average household income of $61,658.

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