Little Flower Eviction Risk: Moderate , Indianapolis
Tract 18097352500 · Marion County, IN · pop 3,181 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
Tract 18097352500 sits in the Little Flower area of Indianapolis eviction risk, IN, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.4/10. Population here is 3,181. Severe burden reaches 44%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Indianapolis and the region
Centroid at 39.7851, -86.0927 · click any tract to drill in
Why Little Flower scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Little Flower compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 60
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 82%Socioeconomic
- 38%Household composition
- 52%Racial/ethnic minority
- 33%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 36%Grade B
- 54%Grade C
- 10%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)
- 407Total filings 2020-21
- 5.3Avg monthly (observed)
- 7.8Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.68×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Indianapolis, IN as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Little Flower. 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.
- 15.3%Housing insecurity
- 12.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 20.8%Food insecurity
- 14.5%SNAP enrollment
- 10.6%Transit barriers
- 11.1%No health insurance
- 19.2%Frequent mental distress
- 32.7%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Little Flower
The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 8.7/10. The poverty rate is 31%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2/10.
Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.1/10. At $914 a month, rents run 21% under what the rest of Indianapolis commands. Cost burden runs roughly one in two here against 46.3% across Marion County.
Against the Marion County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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. Nationally it ranks #24,859 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
Social vulnerability reads 6.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the IN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.
Annual rent works out to 20% of average household income of $54,917.
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.
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