Washington Square Eviction Risk: Moderate , East Chicago

The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.5/10. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.9/10.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10. The poverty rate is 19%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Severe burden reaches 10%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

It sits 0.9 points above the Lake County average of 4.4. Adults with no health insurance runs 19.0% against 11.3% nationally.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 16.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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.

That is riskier than roughly 67% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9/10.

Statewide the IN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.4 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

Average gross rent is $837, close to the East Chicago average.

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