Bosart-Brown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Indianapolis
Tract 18097355400 · Marion County, IN · pop 2,340 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Census tract 18097355400 covers part of the Bosart-Brown area of Indianapolis, IN, and scores 5.2/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 2,340. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 8.7/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Indianapolis and the region
Centroid at 39.7708, -86.0897 · click any tract to drill in
Why Bosart-Brown scores 5.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Bosart-Brown compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 80
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 91%Socioeconomic
- 75%Household composition
- 62%Racial/ethnic minority
- 48%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 66%Grade B
- 31%Grade C
- 3%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)
- 638Total filings 2020-21
- 8.3Avg monthly (observed)
- 14.0Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.59×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
- 12.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 19.7%Food insecurity
- 12.5%SNAP enrollment
- 10.2%Transit barriers
- 11.3%No health insurance
- 19.5%Frequent mental distress
- 30.7%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Bosart-Brown
Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.5/10. Average gross rent is $831, 28% below the Indianapolis average.
19% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Running cool, state political climate reads 2/10. The poverty rate is 19%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
It sits 1.0 points above the Marion County average of 4.2. Cost burden runs 42% here against 46.3% across Marion County.
This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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 65th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 8.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Statewide the IN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter.
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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