Christian Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Indianapolis
Tract 18097355500 · Marion County, IN · pop 4,229 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
With a score of 4.6/10, tract 18097355500 in the Christian Park area of Indianapolis, IN reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. The dominant input 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 39.7597, -86.0924 · click any tract to drill in
Why Christian Park scores 4.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Christian Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 59
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 74%Socioeconomic
- 81%Household composition
- 43%Racial/ethnic minority
- 19%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
- 69%Grade C
- 5%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)
- 349Total filings 2020-21
- 4.5Avg monthly (observed)
- 5.9Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.77×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Indianapolis, IN as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Christian Park. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 13.0%Housing insecurity
- 9.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 17.3%Food insecurity
- 9.7%SNAP enrollment
- 8.7%Transit barriers
- 12.9%No health insurance
- 18.4%Frequent mental distress
- 31.4%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Christian Park
Cost burden runs 35% here against 46.3% across Marion County. Running cool, state political climate reads 2/10. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.1/10.
10% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Average gross rent is $1,013, 12% below the Indianapolis average. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.
That is riskier than roughly 53% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. It tracks the Marion County average of 4.2 closely. Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $51,968.
31% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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