Forest Hills Eviction Risk: Lower , Indianapolis

Cost burden runs 34% here against 46.3% across Marion County. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.7/10.

Average gross rent is $1,442, 25% above the Indianapolis average. Severe burden reaches 16%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Disability prevalence runs 18.6% against 31.5% nationally. SNAP participation runs 2.6% against 15.2% nationally.

Running cool, state political climate reads 2/10. It sits 1.2 points below the Marion County average of 4.2. The voucher gap is 12.4%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

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. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 21% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 13% of average household income of $137,790, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.