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Neighborhood · Ranked #44,239 of 84,120 nationally

Old Speedway Eviction Risk: Moderate , Indianapolis

Tract 18097340800 · Marion County, IN · pop 1,791 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi

Tract 18097340800 sits in the Old Speedway area of Speedway, IN, carrying an eviction-risk score of 4.3/10. 30% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly below the Marion County average of 46.3%.

Risk score
4.3
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 7% Stable renters 15% Owners 78%
Tract context
Occupied units716
Renter share21.9%
SVI overall0.22
Poverty rate18.3%
Median income$70,800

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
67 th percentile
Rank, 67th percentileLowHigh
#4 of 10 tracts In Old Speedway
Elevated
Within parent city
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 4 tracts In Indianapolis
Very High
Within county
58 th percentile
Rank, 58th percentileLowHigh
#108 of 253 tracts In Marion County
Elevated
Within state
68 th percentile
Rank, 68th percentileLowHigh
#548 of 1,693 tracts In Indiana
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Indianapolis and the region

Centroid at 39.7956, -86.2449 · click any tract to drill in

Why Old Speedway scores 4.3

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
$1,205 rent vs county FMR
4.4
Rent control risk
Inherited from Indianapolis
5.2
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Indianapolis
9.4
Housing court bias
Inherited from Indianapolis
6.0

How Old Speedway compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Old Speedway risk score vs. parent city / county / state4.3This tracttract 3408004.0Indianapolisparent city4.2Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 22

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)

  • 45Total filings 2020-21
  • 0.6Avg monthly (observed)
  • 0.7Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.83×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Indianapolis, IN as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Old Speedway. 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 Old Speedway

The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.4/10. Severe burden reaches 27%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.5/10.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 2/10. The poverty rate is 18%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

SNAP participation runs 8.0% against 15.2% nationally. 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 47th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Only 22% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 3/10. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

It tracks the Marion County average of 4.2 closely.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 18097340800

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18097340800?

Census tract 18097340800 in the Old Speedway neighborhood scores 4.3/10 (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 18097340800?

Median gross rent is $1,205/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 30% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 18097340800?

18.3% of residents in tract 18097340800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,791.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 18097340800?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 22th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 49th, household 25th, minority 29th, housing 9th.
Q5

Is tract 18097340800 considered part of Old Speedway?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18097340800 fall within Old Speedway (neighborhood centroid within 0.8 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 18097340800 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.83× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Indianapolis eviction risk, IN), 2020-2021.
Q7

What share of households in tract 18097340800 struggle to pay rent?

About 9.5% 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. 7.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 18097340800 compare to Indianapolis overall?

Tract 18097340800 scores 4.3/10, 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 18097340800 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.
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