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Roxana Eviction Risk: Moderate , East Chicago

Tract 18089030600 · Lake County, IN · pop 4,419 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi

Census tract 18089030600 sits in Roxana in East Chicago eviction risk, Indiana eviction laws, and carries an eviction-risk score of 5.7/10. That is riskier than about 65% of US census tracts.

Rent eats 30% or more of income for 44% of renter households, a severe level, and 21% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $904 monthly, set against $46,733 in average yearly household income, roughly 23% of income at the averages. Renters make up 50% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.

Risk score
5.7
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 22% Stable renters 28% Owners 50%
Tract context
Occupied units1,549
Renter share50.3%
SVI overall0.91
Poverty rate30.3%
Median income$46,733

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Roxana
Moderate
Within parent city
89 th percentile
Rank, 89th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 10 tracts In East Chicago
High
Within county
85 th percentile
Rank, 85th percentileLowHigh
#20 of 131 tracts In Lake County
High
Within state
96 th percentile
Rank, 96th percentileLowHigh
#62 of 1,693 tracts In Indiana
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across East Chicago and the region

Centroid at 41.6147, -87.4839 · click any tract to drill in

Why Roxana scores 5.7

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from East Chicago
6.2
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.8
State political climate
Indiana legislature & governorship
2.0
Economic stress
30.3% poverty · this tract
7.6
Supply constraint
$904 rent vs county FMR
2.6
Rent control risk
Inherited from East Chicago
5.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.9
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from East Chicago
9.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from East Chicago
7.2

How Roxana compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Roxana risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 5.75.7This tracttract 030600East Chicago: 2.82.8East Chicagoparent cityCounty: 3.93.9Countyavg tract in countyState: 3.63.6Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 91

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

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.

CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress

Eviction-adjacent indicators

Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Roxana

What moves this score most is tenant organizing strength at 9.5/10. 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 East Chicago eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.

Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above 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.

This tract overlaps land the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation redlined in the 1930s, a dominant grade of D ("Hazardous") across 23% of the tract. Redlining cut off mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class blocks, and those areas still tend to carry higher rent burden and eviction filings today.

In CDC survey modeling, about 27.0% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 19.6% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.

For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.

Frequently asked

About tract 18089030600

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18089030600?

Census tract 18089030600 in the Roxana neighborhood scores 5.7/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 18089030600?

Median gross rent is $904/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 44% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 18089030600?

30.3% of residents in tract 18089030600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,419.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 18089030600?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 91th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 92th, household 93th, minority 86th, housing 62th.
Q5

Is tract 18089030600 considered part of Roxana?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18089030600 fall within Roxana (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 18089030600 struggle to pay rent?

About 27.0% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 19.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 18089030600 compare to East Chicago overall?

Tract 18089030600 scores 5.7/10, higher than the parent city of East Chicago at 2.8/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from East Chicago eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 18089030600 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 23% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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