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Census Tract · Ranked #34,278 of 84,120 nationally

Indianapolis Eviction Risk: Moderate

Tract 18097342600 · Marion County, IN · pop 3,509

Census tract 18097342600 covers part of Indianapolis, IN, and scores 4.9/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,509. Against Marion County at 46.3%, 33% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Risk score
4.9
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 16% Stable renters 34% Owners 50%
Tract context
Occupied units1,122
Renter share49.6%
SVI overall0.81
Poverty rate17.0%
Median income$45,224

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within parent city
64 th percentile
Rank, 64th percentileLowHigh
#83 of 231 tracts In Indianapolis
Elevated
Within county
68 th percentile
Rank, 68th percentileLowHigh
#82 of 253 tracts In Marion County
Elevated
Within state
83 th percentile
Rank, 83rd percentileLowHigh
#292 of 1,693 tracts In Indiana
High
National
59 th percentile
Rank, 59th percentileLowHigh
#34,278 of 84,120 tracts In U.S.
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Indianapolis and the region

Centroid at 39.7555, -86.2044 · click any tract to drill in

Why Indianapolis scores 4.9

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
17.0% poverty · this tract
4.2
Supply constraint
$878 rent vs county FMR
1.8
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 Indianapolis compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Indianapolis risk score vs. parent city / county / state4.9This tracttract 3426004.0Indianapolisparent city4.2Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 81

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. 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)

  • 381Total filings 2020-21
  • 5.0Avg monthly (observed)
  • 7.0Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.71×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

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 Indianapolis

What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 8.7/10. The severe-burden share is 23%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.8/10.

Average gross rent is $878, 24% below the Indianapolis average. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 21.4% against 11.3% nationally.

Food insecurity runs 27.7% against 17.8% nationally. Against the Marion County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.7 points. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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 #34,278 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.3/10.

Statewide the IN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.0 points hotter.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 18097342600

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18097342600?

Census tract 18097342600 in Indianapolis scores 4.9/10 (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 18097342600?

Median gross rent is $878/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 33% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 18097342600?

17.0% of residents in tract 18097342600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,509.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 18097342600?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 81th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 80th, household 84th, minority 60th, housing 66th.
Q5

Did eviction filings in tract 18097342600 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.71× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Indianapolis eviction risk, IN), 2020-2021.
Q6

What share of households in tract 18097342600 struggle to pay rent?

About 19.8% 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. 13.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 18097342600 compare to Indianapolis overall?

Tract 18097342600 scores 4.9/10, 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.
Q8

Was tract 18097342600 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 72% 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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