Willard Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Indianapolis
Tract 18097354500 · Marion County, IN · pop 2,069 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
With a score of 5.1/10, tract 18097354500 in the Willard Park area of Indianapolis, IN reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,069 residents. Cost burden runs roughly one in three here against 46.3% across Marion County.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Indianapolis and the region
Centroid at 39.7735, -86.1291 · click any tract to drill in
Why Willard Park scores 5.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Willard Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 63
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 79%Socioeconomic
- 30%Household composition
- 57%Racial/ethnic minority
- 49%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
- 0%Grade B
- 90%Grade C
- 9%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)
- 343Total filings 2020-21
- 4.5Avg monthly (observed)
- 6.8Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.65×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.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 15.5%Housing insecurity
- 12.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 21.0%Food insecurity
- 14.2%SNAP enrollment
- 11.1%Transit barriers
- 12.1%No health insurance
- 20.2%Frequent mental distress
- 30.8%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Willard Park
The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 8.7/10. 22% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The poverty rate is 27%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
Running cool, state political climate reads 2/10. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.1/10.
It sits 0.9 points above the Marion County average of 4.2. 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.
On the national scale it lands near the 63rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 6.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Statewide the IN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
About tract 18097354500
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