Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #50,654 of 84,120 nationally
Spades Park Eviction Risk: Lower , Indianapolis
Tract 18097352700 · Marion County, IN · pop 2,600 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
Tract 18097352700 sits in the Spades Park area of Indianapolis eviction risk, IN, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3.9/10. It is home to 2,600 residents. The severe-burden share is 41%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Risk score
3.9
Lower
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 18%
Stable renters 13%
Owners 69%
Tract context
Occupied units935
Renter share31.0%
SVI overall0.79
Poverty rate9.5%
Median income$53,142
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
45
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
48
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
60
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Indianapolis and the region
Centroid at 39.7866, -86.1255 · click any tract to drill in
Why Spades Park scores 3.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal 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
9.5% poverty · this tract
2.4
Supply constraint
$1,188 rent vs county FMR
4.3
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 Spades Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 79
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 89%Socioeconomic
- 86%Household composition
- 57%Racial/ethnic minority
- 41%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
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
- 0%Grade B
- 50%Grade C
- 50%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.
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)
- 339Total filings 2020-21
- 4.4Avg monthly (observed)
- 8.5Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.52×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.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Spades Park. 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.
- 16.7%Housing insecurity
- 14.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 22.2%Food insecurity
- 16.0%SNAP enrollment
- 11.8%Transit barriers
- 12.1%No health insurance
- 19.1%Frequent mental distress
- 31.1%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Spades Park
What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 8.7/10. Cost burden runs 57% here against 46.3% across Marion County.
Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.1/10.
This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 40% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.1/10. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. It tracks the Marion County average of 4.2 closely.
Average gross rent is $1,188, close to the Indianapolis average. Annual rent works out to 27% of average household income of $53,142. 31% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
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.
Frequently asked
About tract 18097352700
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18097352700?
Census tract 18097352700 in the Spades Park neighborhood scores 3.9/10 (Lower 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 18097352700?
Median gross rent is $1,188/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 57% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 18097352700?
9.5% of residents in tract 18097352700 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,600.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 18097352700?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 79th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 89th, household 86th, minority 57th, housing 41th.
Q5
Is tract 18097352700 considered part of Spades Park?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18097352700 fall within Spades Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 18097352700 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.52× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings dropped sharply, likely a moratorium effect. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Indianapolis eviction risk, IN), 2020-2021.
Q7
What share of households in tract 18097352700 struggle to pay rent?
About 16.7% 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. 14.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 18097352700 compare to Indianapolis overall?
Tract 18097352700 scores 3.9/10, right in line with 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 18097352700 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 50% 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.
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