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Neighborhood · Ranked #54,273 of 84,120 nationally

Broad Ripple Eviction Risk: Lower , Indianapolis

Tract 18097320600 · Marion County, IN · pop 2,307 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi

Tract 18097320600 sits in the Broad Ripple area of Indianapolis eviction risk, IN, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3.7/10. It is home to 2,307 residents. At $1,553 a month, rents run 34% over what the rest of Indianapolis commands.

Risk score
3.7
Lower
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 10% Stable renters 17% Owners 73%
Tract context
Occupied units1,033
Renter share27.1%
SVI overall0.18
Poverty rate11.2%
Median income$68,813

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 3 tracts In Broad Ripple
Very High
Within parent city
39 th percentile
Rank, 39th percentileLowHigh
#142 of 231 tracts In Indianapolis
Low
Within county
42 th percentile
Rank, 42nd percentileLowHigh
#147 of 253 tracts In Marion County
Moderate
Within state
55 th percentile
Rank, 55th percentileLowHigh
#761 of 1,693 tracts In Indiana
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Indianapolis and the region

Centroid at 39.8816, -86.1296 · click any tract to drill in

Why Broad Ripple 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
11.2% poverty · this tract
2.8
Supply constraint
$1,553 rent vs county FMR
7.1
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 Broad Ripple compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Broad Ripple risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.7This tracttract 3206004.0Indianapolisparent city4.2Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 18

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. 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)

  • 86Total filings 2020-21
  • 1.1Avg monthly (observed)
  • 1.1Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 1.02×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

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

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Broad Ripple. 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Broad Ripple

The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 8.7/10. 36% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well below the Marion County average of 46.3%.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 2/10. The voucher gap is 21.0%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.1/10. SNAP participation runs 5.6% against 15.2% nationally. 11% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Food insecurity runs 10.2% against 17.8% nationally. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. On the national scale it lands near the 35th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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 18097320600

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18097320600?

Census tract 18097320600 in the Broad Ripple 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 18097320600?

Median gross rent is $1,553/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 36% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 18097320600?

11.2% of residents in tract 18097320600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,307.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 18097320600?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 18th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 65th, household 8th, minority 39th, housing 4th.
Q5

Is tract 18097320600 considered part of Broad Ripple?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18097320600 fall within Broad Ripple (neighborhood centroid within 1.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 18097320600 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 1.02× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings returned near baseline. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Indianapolis eviction risk, IN), 2020-2021.
Q7

What share of households in tract 18097320600 struggle to pay rent?

About 8.5% 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. 6.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 18097320600 compare to Indianapolis overall?

Tract 18097320600 scores 3.7/10, lower than the parent city of Indianapolis at 4/10. 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 18097320600 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 59% 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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