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Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally

Butler-Tarkington Eviction Risk: Lower , Indianapolis

Tract 18097321900 · Marion County, IN · pop 5,275 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi

With a score of 3/10, tract 18097321900 in the Butler-Tarkington area of Indianapolis, IN reads lower for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 5,275. Severe burden reaches 55%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 14% Stable renters 8% Owners 78%
Tract context
Occupied units1,211
Renter share21.8%
SVI overall0.06
Poverty rate18.3%
Median income$144,844

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Butler-Tarkington
Moderate
Within parent city
7 th percentile
Rank, 7th percentileLowHigh
#215 of 231 tracts In Indianapolis
Very Low
Within county
12 th percentile
Rank, 12th percentileLowHigh
#222 of 253 tracts In Marion County
Very Low
Within state
34 th percentile
Rank, 34th percentileLowHigh
#1,115 of 1,693 tracts In Indiana
Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across Indianapolis and the region

Centroid at 39.8398, -86.1645 · click any tract to drill in

Why Butler-Tarkington scores 3

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
18.3% poverty · this tract
4.6
Supply constraint
$1,906 rent vs county FMR
9.9
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 Butler-Tarkington compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Butler-Tarkington risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.0This tracttract 3219004.0Indianapolisparent city4.2Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 6

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)

  • 40Total filings 2020-21
  • 0.5Avg monthly (observed)
  • 0.3Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 1.90×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran above 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 Butler-Tarkington

63% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Marion County average of 46.3%. The score leans hardest on supply constraint at 9.9/10. Average gross rent is $1,906, 65% above the Indianapolis average.

The voucher gap is 48.6%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.7/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10.

Against the Marion County average of 4.2, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.2 points. SNAP participation runs 4.2% against 15.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 18%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Food insecurity runs 9.4% against 17.8% nationally. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground A ("Best"). 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.

Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 22% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 18097321900

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18097321900?

Census tract 18097321900 in the Butler-Tarkington neighborhood scores 3/10 (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 18097321900?

Median gross rent is $1,906/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 63% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 18097321900?

18.3% of residents in tract 18097321900 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,275.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 18097321900?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 6th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 31th, household 2th, minority 31th, housing 12th.
Q5

Is tract 18097321900 considered part of Butler-Tarkington?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18097321900 fall within Butler-Tarkington (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 18097321900 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 1.90× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran above pre-pandemic norms. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Indianapolis eviction risk, IN), 2020-2021.
Q7

What share of households in tract 18097321900 struggle to pay rent?

About 7.2% 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. 5.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 18097321900 compare to Indianapolis overall?

Tract 18097321900 scores 3/10, 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 18097321900 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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