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Neighborhood · Ranked #29,336 of 84,120 nationally

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.

Risk score
5.2
Moderate
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 24% Stable renters 33% Owners 43%
Tract context
Occupied units1,290
Renter share56.8%
SVI overall0.80
Poverty rate19.5%
Median income$41,192

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Bosart-Brown
Moderate
Within parent city
70 th percentile
Rank, 70th percentileLowHigh
#71 of 231 tracts In Indianapolis
Elevated
Within county
73 th percentile
Rank, 73rd percentileLowHigh
#69 of 253 tracts In Marion County
Elevated
Within state
87 th percentile
Rank, 87th percentileLowHigh
#225 of 1,693 tracts In Indiana
High
Geographic context

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-friendly
Local 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
19.5% poverty · this tract
4.9
Supply constraint
$831 rent vs county FMR
1.5
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 Bosart-Brown compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Bosart-Brown risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.2This tracttract 3554004.0Indianapolisparent city4.2Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 80

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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.

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)

  • 638Total filings 2020-21
  • 8.3Avg monthly (observed)
  • 14.0Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.59×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Indianapolis, IN as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

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.

Analysis

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 18097355400

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18097355400?

Census tract 18097355400 in the Bosart-Brown neighborhood scores 5.2/10 (Moderate 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 18097355400?

Median gross rent is $831/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 42% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 18097355400?

19.5% of residents in tract 18097355400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,340.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 18097355400?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 80th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 91th, household 75th, minority 62th, housing 48th.
Q5

Is tract 18097355400 considered part of Bosart-Brown?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18097355400 fall within Bosart-Brown (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 18097355400 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.59× 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 18097355400 struggle to pay rent?

About 15.5% 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. 12.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 18097355400 compare to Indianapolis overall?

Tract 18097355400 scores 5.2/10, higher than 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 18097355400 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 3% 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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