Riverside Eviction Risk: Moderate , Indianapolis

The dominant input is economic stress at 8.9/10. The poverty rate is 35%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Set annual rent against average income of $42,265 and the ratio lands at 36%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.7/10. 68% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2/10.

Against the Marion County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 18.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. SNAP participation runs 23.8% against 15.2% nationally.

Average gross rent is $1,258, 9% above the Indianapolis average. 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.

On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 7.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.