Robertsdale Eviction Risk: Moderate , Hammond

What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9/10. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.4/10.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10. The poverty rate is 20%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Against the Lake County average of 4.4, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.9 points. Food insecurity runs 24.8% against 17.8% nationally. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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.

Nationally it ranks #28,095 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the IN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.4 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. 41% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent. Average gross rent is $1,006, close to the Whiting average.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.