Sunshine Gardens Eviction Risk: Moderate , Indianapolis
Tract 18097370204 · Marion County, IN · pop 3,348 · neighborhood within 1.3 mi
Census tract 18097370204 covers part of the Sunshine Gardens area of Indianapolis, IN, and scores 4.1/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,348. 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 39.7049, -86.2231 · click any tract to drill in
Why Sunshine Gardens scores 4.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Sunshine Gardens compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 77
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 90%Socioeconomic
- 78%Household composition
- 5%Racial/ethnic minority
- 61%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. 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
- 0%Grade C
- 35%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)
- 371Total filings 2020-21
- 4.8Avg monthly (observed)
- 5.5Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.88×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 Sunshine Gardens. 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.
- 15.3%Housing insecurity
- 12.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 22.4%Food insecurity
- 15.2%SNAP enrollment
- 11.3%Transit barriers
- 13.8%No health insurance
- 21.1%Frequent mental distress
- 37.8%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Sunshine Gardens
24% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Cost burden runs 56% here against 46.3% across Marion County. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10.
On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.1/10. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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.
On the national scale it lands near the 44th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.
It tracks the Marion County average of 4.2 closely. Average gross rent is $1,069, close to the Indianapolis average.
Annual rent works out to 24% of average household income of $53,561. 33% 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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