Within neighborhood
20
th percentile
Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #61,558 of 84,120 nationally
Fountain Square Eviction Risk: Lower , Indianapolis
Tract 18097357000 · Marion County, IN · pop 1,913 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
With a score of 3.3/10, tract 18097357000 in the Fountain Square area of Indianapolis, IN reads lower for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 1,913. The severe-burden share is 39%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Risk score
3.3
Lower
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 18%
Stable renters 15%
Owners 67%
Tract context
Occupied units942
Renter share33.0%
SVI overall0.51
Poverty rate8.2%
Median income$76,061
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
28
th percentile
Low
Within county
30
th percentile
Low
Within state
43
th percentile
Moderate
Geographic context
Risk heat across Indianapolis and the region
Centroid at 39.7462, -86.1448 · click any tract to drill in
Why Fountain Square scores 3.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal 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
8.2% poverty · this tract
2.0
Supply constraint
$1,085 rent vs county FMR
3.5
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 Fountain Square compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 51
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 93%Socioeconomic
- 21%Household composition
- 12%Racial/ethnic minority
- 20%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 51%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 29%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.
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)
- 147Total filings 2020-21
- 1.9Avg monthly (observed)
- 4.5Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.43×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.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Fountain Square. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
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.
- 12.8%Housing insecurity
- 10.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 17.0%Food insecurity
- 11.0%SNAP enrollment
- 9.3%Transit barriers
- 11.0%No health insurance
- 19.8%Frequent mental distress
- 28.9%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Fountain Square
The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 8.7/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10. 54% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Marion County average of 46.3%.
Running cool, economic stress reads 2/10. Against the Marion County average of 4.2, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.9 points. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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 27% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.6/10.
Against average income of $76,061, annual rent is just 17%. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $1,085, close to the Indianapolis average.
33% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
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 18097357000
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18097357000?
Census tract 18097357000 in the Fountain Square neighborhood scores 3.3/10 (Lower 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 18097357000?
Median gross rent is $1,085/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 54% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 18097357000?
8.2% of residents in tract 18097357000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,913.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 18097357000?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 51th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 93th, household 21th, minority 12th, housing 20th.
Q5
Is tract 18097357000 considered part of Fountain Square?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18097357000 fall within Fountain Square (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 18097357000 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.43× 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 18097357000 struggle to pay rent?
About 12.8% 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. 10.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 18097357000 compare to Indianapolis overall?
Tract 18097357000 scores 3.3/10, lower 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 18097357000 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. 29% 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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