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Old Speedway Eviction Risk: Moderate , Indianapolis

Tract 18097340904 · Marion County, IN · pop 4,652 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi

18097340904 is a census tract in the Old Speedway area of Speedway, IN. It scores 4.1/10 for landlords. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.4/10.

Risk score
4.1
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 28% Stable renters 41% Owners 31%
Tract context
Occupied units2,336
Renter share68.9%
SVI overall0.63
Poverty rate11.4%
Median income$52,603

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
44 th percentile
Rank, 44th percentileLowHigh
#6 of 10 tracts In Old Speedway
Moderate
Within parent city
67 th percentile
Rank, 67th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 4 tracts In Indianapolis
Elevated
Within county
52 th percentile
Rank, 52nd percentileLowHigh
#122 of 253 tracts In Marion County
Moderate
Within state
64 th percentile
Rank, 64th percentileLowHigh
#607 of 1,693 tracts In Indiana
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Indianapolis and the region

Centroid at 39.7892, -86.2601 · click any tract to drill in

Why Old Speedway scores 4.1

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
11.4% poverty · this tract
2.8
Supply constraint
$1,095 rent vs county FMR
3.5
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 / state4.1This tracttract 3409044.0Indianapolisparent city4.2Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 63

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)

  • 1,327Total filings 2020-21
  • 17.2Avg monthly (observed)
  • 20.1Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.86×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

Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.5/10. 69% 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.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10. Severe burden reaches 10%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Cost burden runs 41% here against 46.3% across Marion County. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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.

That is riskier than roughly 44% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.7/10. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

It tracks the Marion County average of 4.2 closely. Average gross rent is $1,095, close to the Speedway average.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 18097340904

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18097340904?

Census tract 18097340904 in the Old Speedway neighborhood scores 4.1/10 (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 18097340904?

Median gross rent is $1,095/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 41% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 18097340904?

11.4% of residents in tract 18097340904 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,652.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 18097340904?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 63th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 44th, household 76th, minority 62th, housing 65th.
Q5

Is tract 18097340904 considered part of Old Speedway?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18097340904 fall within Old Speedway (neighborhood centroid within 1.0 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 18097340904 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.86× 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 18097340904 struggle to pay rent?

About 13.9% 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. 10.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 18097340904 compare to Indianapolis overall?

Tract 18097340904 scores 4.1/10, right in line with 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 18097340904 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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