Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
North Meridian Street Historic District Eviction Risk: Lower , Indianapolis
Tract 18097322200 · Marion County, IN · pop 2,196 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
Census tract 18097322200 covers part of the North Meridian Street Historic District area of Indianapolis, IN, and scores 3/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,196 residents. Cost burden runs 26% here against 46.3% across Marion County.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 7%
Stable renters 21%
Owners 72%
Tract context
Occupied units866
Renter share28.2%
SVI overall0.04
Poverty rate5.4%
Median income$103,534
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
15
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
12
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
34
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Indianapolis and the region
Centroid at 39.8362, -86.1471 · click any tract to drill in
Why North Meridian Street Historic District scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal 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
5.4% poverty · this tract
1.3
Supply constraint
$1,220 rent vs county FMR
4.5
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 North Meridian Street Historic District compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 4
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 28%Socioeconomic
- 4%Household composition
- 37%Racial/ethnic minority
- 3%Housing & transportation
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.
- 89%Grade A
- 11%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
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)
- 64Total filings 2020-21
- 0.8Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.3Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.65×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Indianapolis, IN as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within North Meridian Street Historic District. 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.
- 7.8%Housing insecurity
- 6.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 8.4%Food insecurity
- 4.3%SNAP enrollment
- 5.2%Transit barriers
- 5.5%No health insurance
- 15.2%Frequent mental distress
- 21.3%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in North Meridian Street Historic District
The clearest offset is economic stress at 1.3/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.7/10.
Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10. Severe burden reaches 14%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
It sits 1.2 points below the Marion County average of 4.2. SNAP participation runs 4.3% against 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity runs 8.4% 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. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 1.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Rent consumes only 14% of average household income of $103,534, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the IN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler.
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 18097322200
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18097322200?
Census tract 18097322200 in the North Meridian Street Historic District 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 18097322200?
Median gross rent is $1,220/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 26% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 18097322200?
5.4% of residents in tract 18097322200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,196.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 18097322200?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 4th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 28th, household 4th, minority 37th, housing 3th.
Q5
Is tract 18097322200 considered part of North Meridian Street Historic District?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18097322200 fall within North Meridian Street Historic District (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 18097322200 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.65× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings dropped sharply, likely a moratorium effect. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Indianapolis eviction risk, IN), 2020-2021.
Q7
What share of households in tract 18097322200 struggle to pay rent?
About 7.8% 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. 6.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 18097322200 compare to Indianapolis overall?
Tract 18097322200 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 18097322200 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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