Lakeside Eviction Risk: Moderate , East Chicago

At $286 a month, rents run 67% under what the rest of East Chicago commands. Food insecurity runs 70.4% against 17.8% nationally. The poverty rate is 67%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

This is renter territory: 99% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.5/10.

Disability prevalence runs 51.6% against 31.5% nationally. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10.

54% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Lake County average of 43.0%. It sits 1.2 points above the Lake County average of 4.4. The severe-burden share is 9%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

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 73% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. 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 1.7 points hotter.

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