Venerable Flackville Eviction Risk: Moderate , Indianapolis
Tract 18097340302 · Marion County, IN · pop 5,263 · neighborhood within 1.4 mi
Census tract 18097340302 covers part of the Venerable Flackville area of Indianapolis, IN, and scores 4.7/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 5,263. The severe-burden share is 26%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Indianapolis and the region
Centroid at 39.8096, -86.2476 · click any tract to drill in
Why Venerable Flackville scores 4.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Venerable Flackville compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 90
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 86%Socioeconomic
- 85%Household composition
- 83%Racial/ethnic minority
- 78%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 2%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.
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)
- 419Total filings 2020-21
- 5.4Avg monthly (observed)
- 9.9Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.55×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.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Venerable Flackville. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 28.3%Housing insecurity
- 20.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 38.4%Food insecurity
- 25.9%SNAP enrollment
- 17.8%Transit barriers
- 26.0%No health insurance
- 20.7%Frequent mental distress
- 38.1%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Venerable Flackville
The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 8.7/10. 65% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.
On the softer side, state political climate reads 2/10. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.1/10.
Inability to pay a utility bill runs 20.6% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. SNAP participation runs 25.9% against 15.2% nationally.
Average gross rent is $936, 19% below the Indianapolis average. The poverty rate is 18%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. 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.
Nationally it ranks #37,882 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 9.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the IN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.8 points hotter.
Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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