Old Southside Eviction Risk: Moderate , Indianapolis

The dominant input is economic stress at 9.2/10. Against Marion County at 46.3%, 60% of renters here are cost-burdened. The poverty rate is 37%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.7/10. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2/10. Against the Marion County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points.

Food insecurity runs 25.8% against 17.8% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 14.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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. That is riskier than roughly 70% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Social vulnerability reads 9.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the IN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

Average gross rent is $1,106, close to the Indianapolis average. Annual rent works out to 32% of average household income of $41,528.

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.