Otterbein Eviction Risk: Moderate , Indianapolis
Tract 18097352400 · Marion County, IN · pop 3,321 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
18097352400 is a census tract in the Otterbein area of Indianapolis, IN. It scores 4.7/10 for landlords. Population here is 3,321. The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 8.7/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Indianapolis and the region
Centroid at 39.7948, -86.0921 · click any tract to drill in
Why Otterbein scores 4.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Otterbein compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 84
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 95%Socioeconomic
- 80%Household composition
- 80%Racial/ethnic minority
- 40%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
- 0%Grade C
- 100%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)
- 794Total filings 2020-21
- 10.3Avg monthly (observed)
- 12.5Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.83×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
Within Otterbein. 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.
- 22.1%Housing insecurity
- 17.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 30.1%Food insecurity
- 21.9%SNAP enrollment
- 14.5%Transit barriers
- 15.4%No health insurance
- 20.6%Frequent mental distress
- 36.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Otterbein
Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $39,717, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. This is renter territory: 67% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
On the softer side, state political climate reads 2/10. Food insecurity runs 30.1% against 17.8% nationally.
Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.1/10. Against Marion County at 46.3%, 53% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Severe burden reaches 13%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Housing insecurity runs 22.1% against 14.2% nationally.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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 55th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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