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Spring Mill Woods Eviction Risk: Lower , Indianapolis

Tract 18097320106 · Marion County, IN · pop 3,612 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi

The Spring Mill Woods neighborhood of Indianapolis city (balance) anchors census tract 18097320106, which lands at 5.1/10 on landlord eviction risk. It lands near the 43rd percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.

36% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a high level, and 32% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $1,162 a month while the average household earns $71,721 a year, roughly 19% of income at the averages. Renters make up 60% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.

Risk score
3.7
Lower
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 22% Stable renters 38% Owners 40%
Tract context
Occupied units1,374
Renter share59.9%
SVI overall0.70
Poverty rate11.3%
Median income$71,721

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Spring Mill Woods
Moderate
Within parent city
35 th percentile
Rank, 35th percentileLowHigh
#150 of 231 tracts In Indianapolis
Low
Within county
40 th percentile
Rank, 40th percentileLowHigh
#153 of 253 tracts In Marion County
Low
Within state
58 th percentile
Rank, 58th percentileLowHigh
#718 of 1,693 tracts In Indiana
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Indianapolis and the region

Centroid at 39.9233, -86.1737 · click any tract to drill in

Why Spring Mill Woods scores 3.7

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Indianapolis
6.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.5
State political climate
Indiana legislature & governorship
2.0
Economic stress
11.3% poverty · this tract
2.8
Supply constraint
$1,162 rent vs county FMR
4.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from Indianapolis
6.6
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.1
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Indianapolis
8.7
Housing court bias
Inherited from Indianapolis
6.8

How Spring Mill Woods compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Spring Mill Woods risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 3.73.7This tracttract 320106Indianapolis: 2.72.7Indianapolisparent cityCounty: 4.04.0Countyavg tract in countyState: 3.63.6Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 70

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: A: Best

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Eviction filings

Court-record eviction history

Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 844Total filings 2020-21
  • 11.0Avg monthly (observed)
  • 11.8Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.93×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline2020-01-01: 13 filings (0.78× baseline)2020-02-01: 13 filings (1.24× baseline)2020-03-01: 2 filings (0.24× baseline)2020-04-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-06-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-07-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-08-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-09-01: 7 filings (0.72× baseline)2020-10-01: 8 filings (0.41× baseline)2020-11-01: 4 filings (0.33× baseline)2020-12-01: 1 filings (0.07× baseline)2021-01-01: 22 filings (1.31× baseline)2021-02-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-03-01: 17 filings (2.06× baseline)2021-04-01: 6 filings (0.42× baseline)2021-05-01: 1 filings (0.12× baseline)2021-06-01: 3 filings (0.22× baseline)2021-07-01: 12 filings (0.94× baseline)2021-08-01: 1 filings (0.09× baseline)2021-09-01: 8 filings (0.82× baseline)2021-10-01: 2 filings (0.10× baseline)2021-11-01: 8 filings (0.65× baseline)2021-12-01: 5 filings (0.36× baseline)2022-01-01: 3 filings (0.18× baseline)2022-02-01: 4 filings (0.38× baseline)2022-03-01: 14 filings (1.70× baseline)2022-04-01: 16 filings (1.12× baseline)2022-05-01: 17 filings (2.00× baseline)2022-06-01: 12 filings (0.89× baseline)2022-07-01: 19 filings (1.49× baseline)2022-08-01: 15 filings (1.28× baseline)2022-09-01: 13 filings (1.33× baseline)2022-10-01: 16 filings (0.81× baseline)2022-11-01: 13 filings (1.06× baseline)2022-12-01: 12 filings (0.87× baseline)2023-01-01: 17 filings (1.01× baseline)2023-02-01: 13 filings (1.24× baseline)2023-03-01: 9 filings (1.09× baseline)2023-04-01: 21 filings (1.47× baseline)2023-05-01: 24 filings (2.82× baseline)2023-06-01: 20 filings (1.48× baseline)2023-07-01: 13 filings (1.02× baseline)2023-08-01: 15 filings (1.28× baseline)2023-09-01: 14 filings (1.44× baseline)2023-10-01: 21 filings (1.06× baseline)2023-11-01: 8 filings (0.65× baseline)2023-12-01: 25 filings (1.82× baseline)2024-01-01: 14 filings (0.84× baseline)2024-02-01: 4 filings (0.38× baseline)2024-03-01: 22 filings (2.67× baseline)2024-04-01: 14 filings (0.98× baseline)2024-05-01: 17 filings (2.00× baseline)2024-06-01: 19 filings (1.41× baseline)2024-07-01: 20 filings (1.57× baseline)2024-08-01: 13 filings (1.11× baseline)2024-09-01: 17 filings (1.74× baseline)2024-10-01: 11 filings (0.56× baseline)2024-11-01: 10 filings (0.82× baseline)2024-12-01: 12 filings (0.87× baseline)2025-01-01: 15 filings (0.90× baseline)2025-02-01: 10 filings (0.95× baseline)2025-03-01: 12 filings (1.45× baseline)2025-04-01: 9 filings (0.63× baseline)2025-05-01: 20 filings (2.35× baseline)2025-06-01: 13 filings (0.96× baseline)2025-07-01: 15 filings (1.18× baseline)2025-08-01: 17 filings (1.45× baseline)2025-09-01: 10 filings (1.03× baseline)2025-10-01: 17 filings (0.86× baseline)2025-11-01: 10 filings (0.82× baseline)2025-12-01: 9 filings (0.65× baseline)2026-01-01: 15 filings (150.00× baseline)2026-02-01: 5 filings (50.00× baseline)2026-03-01: 3 filings (30.00× baseline)2026-04-01: 4 filings (40.00× baseline)2026-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)

Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Indianapolis, IN as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Spring Mill Woods

The score leans hardest on tenant organizing strength at 8.7/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Indianapolis eviction risk city (balance), while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.

Set against its neighbors, this tract scores below the Marion County average of 5.4 and above the Indiana statewide average of 4.7. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.

During 2020 and 2021, eviction filings here ran at about 0.93x the pre-COVID monthly baseline, a little under the pre-pandemic norm.

HOLC surveyors mapped this tract in the 1930s with a dominant grade of A ("Best"), above the redlined D tier. The grading still shaped decades of lending and development in the surrounding area.

For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.

Frequently asked

About tract 18097320106

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18097320106?

Census tract 18097320106 in the Spring Mill Woods neighborhood scores 3.7/10 (Lower 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 average rent in tract 18097320106?

Median gross rent is $1,162/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 36% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 18097320106?

11.3% of residents in tract 18097320106 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,612.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 18097320106?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 70th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 70th, household 70th, minority 72th, housing 49th.
Q5

Is tract 18097320106 considered part of Spring Mill Woods?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18097320106 fall within Spring Mill Woods (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 18097320106 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.93× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Indianapolis eviction risk, IN), 2020-2021.
Q7

What share of households in tract 18097320106 struggle to pay rent?

About 12.7% 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. 11.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 18097320106 compare to Indianapolis overall?

Tract 18097320106 scores 3.7/10, higher than the parent city of Indianapolis at 2.7/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Indianapolis eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9

Was tract 18097320106 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of A. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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