Zimmerman's Eviction Risk: Lower , Griffith

20% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Well under the midpoint, 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.

Running cool, state political climate reads 2/10. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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.

Social vulnerability reads 5.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the IN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

Rent takes 30% or more of income for 43% of renters. Average gross rent is $1,181, close to the Griffith average.

Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $62,167.

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