Driftwood Hills Eviction Risk: Moderate , Indianapolis

The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 8.7/10. This is renter territory: 80% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $41,453, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

The poverty rate is 27%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Running cool, state political climate reads 2/10. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.1/10.

Against the Marion County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points. Food insecurity runs 28.2% against 17.8% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.7% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

This ground was mapped A ("Best") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Indianapolis. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. Nationally it ranks #24,859 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.1/10. Statewide the IN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter.

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