Michigan City Eviction Risk: Moderate

22% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Average gross rent is $686, 29% below the Michigan City average.

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.6/10. The poverty rate is 28%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Cost burden runs 44% here against 35.8% across LaPorte County. Running cool, state political climate reads 2/10. Against the LaPorte County average of 3.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.9 points.

Food insecurity runs 25.5% against 17.8% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 14.4% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

On the national scale it lands near the 53rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 24% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

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.