West Lakes Eviction Risk: Lower , Munster

The clearest offset is economic stress at 1/10. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.9/10.

At $1,141 a month, rents run 24% under what the rest of Munster commands. It sits 1.4 points below the Lake County average of 4.4. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2/10.

SNAP participation runs 4.5% against 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity runs 9.8% against 17.8% nationally.

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. That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

At 16% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Social vulnerability reads 5.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 15% of average household income of $93,698, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Statewide the IN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.

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.