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Neighborhood · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally

Devington Eviction Risk: Moderate , Indianapolis

Tract 18097331000 · Marion County, IN · pop 4,142 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi

With a score of 5.4/10, tract 18097331000 in the Devington area of Indianapolis, IN reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 4,142 residents. Severe burden reaches 53%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 40% Stable renters 11% Owners 49%
Tract context
Occupied units1,636
Renter share51.3%
SVI overall0.90
Poverty rate36.3%
Median income$46,761

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 3 tracts In Devington
Very High
Within parent city
82 th percentile
Rank, 82nd percentileLowHigh
#42 of 231 tracts In Indianapolis
High
Within county
97 th percentile
Rank, 97th percentileLowHigh
#9 of 253 tracts In Marion County
Very High
Within state
95 th percentile
Rank, 95th percentileLowHigh
#93 of 1,693 tracts In Indiana
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Indianapolis and the region

Centroid at 39.8329, -86.0743 · click any tract to drill in

Why Devington scores 5.4

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
36.3% poverty · this tract
9.1
Supply constraint
$1,443 rent vs county FMR
6.2
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 Devington compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Devington risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.4This tracttract 3310004.0Indianapolisparent city4.2Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 90

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. 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)

  • 496Total filings 2020-21
  • 6.4Avg monthly (observed)
  • 11.6Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.56×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic 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 Devington. 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 Devington

78% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well clear of the Marion County average of 46.3%. SNAP participation runs 38.6% against 15.2% nationally.

The dominant input is economic stress at 9.1/10. The poverty rate is 36%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Annualized rent equals 37% of average household income of $46,761, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.7/10. Housing insecurity runs 30.2% against 14.2% nationally.

At $1,443 a month, rents run 25% over what the rest of Indianapolis commands. Running cool, state political climate reads 2/10.

Against the Marion County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points. The voucher gap is 12.5%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.1/10.

Statewide the IN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter.

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 18097331000

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18097331000?

Census tract 18097331000 in the Devington neighborhood scores 5.4/10 (Moderate 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 18097331000?

Median gross rent is $1,443/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 78% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 18097331000?

36.3% of residents in tract 18097331000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,142.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 18097331000?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 90th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 96th, household 99th, minority 96th, housing 24th.
Q5

Is tract 18097331000 considered part of Devington?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18097331000 fall within Devington (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 18097331000 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.56× 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 18097331000 struggle to pay rent?

About 30.2% 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. 27.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 18097331000 compare to Indianapolis overall?

Tract 18097331000 scores 5.4/10, higher 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 18097331000 historically redlined?

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

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Top eight tracts in Indianapolis ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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