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.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.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-friendlyHow Indianapolis compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 81
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 80%Socioeconomic
- 84%Household composition
- 60%Racial/ethnic minority
- 66%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 19%Grade C
- 72%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)
- 381Total filings 2020-21
- 5.0Avg monthly (observed)
- 7.0Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.71×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Indianapolis, IN as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 19.8%Housing insecurity
- 13.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 27.7%Food insecurity
- 16.4%SNAP enrollment
- 13.1%Transit barriers
- 21.4%No health insurance
- 21.0%Frequent mental distress
- 38.3%Any disability
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.
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