La Porte Eviction Risk: Moderate

Pulling hardest the other way is state political climate at 2/10. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.1/10.

The poverty rate is 26%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Against the LaPorte County average of 3.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.7/10.

That is riskier than roughly 63% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the IN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

Rent takes 30% or more of income for 38% of renters. Average gross rent is $910, close to the La Porte average.

Annual rent works out to 21% of average household income of $51,463. 42% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.