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Neighborhood · Ranked #37,882 of 84,120 nationally

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.

Risk score
4.7
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 35% Stable renters 31% Owners 34%
Tract context
Occupied units1,355
Renter share66.8%
SVI overall0.84
Poverty rate14.4%
Median income$39,717

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#3 of 3 tracts In Otterbein
Very Low
Within parent city
61 th percentile
Rank, 61st percentileLowHigh
#90 of 231 tracts In Indianapolis
Elevated
Within county
65 th percentile
Rank, 65th percentileLowHigh
#89 of 253 tracts In Marion County
Elevated
Within state
80 th percentile
Rank, 80th percentileLowHigh
#340 of 1,693 tracts In Indiana
High
Geographic context

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-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
14.4% poverty · this tract
3.6
Supply constraint
$1,103 rent vs county FMR
3.6
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 Otterbein compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Otterbein risk score vs. parent city / county / state4.7This tracttract 3524004.0Indianapolisparent city4.2Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 84

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)

  • 794Total filings 2020-21
  • 10.3Avg monthly (observed)
  • 12.5Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.83×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

Within Otterbein. 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 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.

Frequently asked

About tract 18097352400

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18097352400?

Census tract 18097352400 in the Otterbein neighborhood scores 4.7/10 (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 18097352400?

Median gross rent is $1,103/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 53% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 18097352400?

14.4% of residents in tract 18097352400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,321.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 18097352400?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 84th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 95th, household 80th, minority 80th, housing 40th.
Q5

Is tract 18097352400 considered part of Otterbein?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18097352400 fall within Otterbein (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 18097352400 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.83× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Indianapolis eviction risk, IN), 2020-2021.
Q7

What share of households in tract 18097352400 struggle to pay rent?

About 22.1% 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. 17.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 18097352400 compare to Indianapolis overall?

Tract 18097352400 scores 4.7/10, 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.
Q9

Was tract 18097352400 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. 100% 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.
Sibling tracts

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Top eight tracts in Indianapolis ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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