Within parent city
100
th percentile
Very High
Census Tract · Ranked #35,669 of 84,120 nationally
Westville Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 18091042602 · LaPorte County, IN · pop 3,640 · 81% of tract blocks fall in Westville
18091042602 is a census tract in Westville, IN. It scores 4.8/10 for landlords. It is home to 3,640 residents. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10.
Risk score
4.8
Moderate
Confidence 70% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 0%
Stable renters 100%
Owners 0%
Tract context
Occupied units16
Renter share100.0%
SVI overall0.32
Poverty rate75.0%
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
90
th percentile
High
Within state
82
th percentile
High
National
58
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Westville and the region
Centroid at 41.5287, -86.9114 · click any tract to drill in
Why Westville scores 4.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Westville
5.2
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.6
State political climate
Indiana legislature & governorship
2.0
Economic stress
75.0% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
tract rent vs county FMR
5.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Westville
4.2
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.4
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Westville
3.9
Housing court bias
Inherited from Westville
4.6
How Westville compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 32
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 45%Socioeconomic
- 8%Household composition
- 61%Racial/ethnic minority
- 38%Housing & transportation
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 37.3%Housing insecurity
- 34.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 53.8%Food insecurity
- 50.0%SNAP enrollment
- 27.5%Transit barriers
- 26.3%No health insurance
- 26.3%Frequent mental distress
- 51.5%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Westville
SNAP participation runs 50.0% against 15.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 75%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. This is renter territory: 100% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
Disability prevalence runs 51.5% against 31.5% nationally. Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.4/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 2/10.
Against the LaPorte County average of 3.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. Nationally it ranks #35,669 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 3.9/10.
Statewide the IN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition 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.
Frequently asked
About tract 18091042602
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18091042602?
Census tract 18091042602 in Westville scores 4.8/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the poverty rate in tract 18091042602?
75.0% of residents in tract 18091042602 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,640.
Q3
How socially vulnerable is tract 18091042602?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 32th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 45th, household 8th, minority 61th, housing 38th.
Q4
What share of households in tract 18091042602 struggle to pay rent?
About 37.3% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 34.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q5
How does tract 18091042602 compare to Westville overall?
Tract 18091042602 scores 4.8/10, higher than the parent city of Westville at 3.4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Westville; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Westville
Top eight tracts in Westville ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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