Lakeside Eviction Risk: Lower , East Chicago

Cost burden runs 72% here against 43.0% across Lake County. The clearest offset is economic stress at 1.7/10.

Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.9/10. Against the Lake County average of 4.4, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.4 points.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10. SNAP participation runs 5.6% against 15.2% nationally. Average gross rent is $1,052, 15% below the Griffith average.

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. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

At 8% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Social vulnerability reads 3.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

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.