Friends and Neighbors Eviction Risk: Moderate , Indianapolis

Severe burden reaches 28%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 8.7/10.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 2/10. Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.1/10. Food insecurity runs 27.3% against 17.8% nationally.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 16.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. 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.

That is riskier than roughly 58% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the IN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter.

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 $1,097, close to the Indianapolis average.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.