Old Speedway Eviction Risk: Moderate , Indianapolis

Set annual rent against average income of $39,846 and the ratio lands at 33%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Food insecurity runs 32.5% against 17.8% nationally.

The poverty rate is 27%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10.

Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.1/10. Against the Marion County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 18.1% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The severe-burden share is 9%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. 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.

On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.7/10. Statewide the IN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 43% of renters.

Average gross rent is $1,096, close to the Indianapolis average.

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