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Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally

Sunshine Gardens Eviction Risk: Lower , Indianapolis

Tract 18097380102 · Marion County, IN · pop 3,183 · neighborhood within 1.5 mi

Tract 18097380102 sits in the Sunshine Gardens area of Indianapolis eviction risk, IN, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3/10. It is home to 3,183 residents. Against Marion County at 46.3%, 12% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 4% Stable renters 30% Owners 66%
Tract context
Occupied units1,351
Renter share33.5%
SVI overall0.07
Poverty rate7.6%
Median income$88,693

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#3 of 3 tracts In Sunshine Gardens
Very Low
Within parent city
8 th percentile
Rank, 8th percentileLowHigh
#212 of 231 tracts In Indianapolis
Very Low
Within county
5 th percentile
Rank, 5th percentileLowHigh
#240 of 253 tracts In Marion County
Very Low
Within state
34 th percentile
Rank, 34th percentileLowHigh
#1,115 of 1,693 tracts In Indiana
Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across Indianapolis and the region

Centroid at 39.6789, -86.1862 · click any tract to drill in

Why Sunshine Gardens scores 3

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
7.6% poverty · this tract
1.9
Supply constraint
$1,117 rent vs county FMR
3.7
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 Sunshine Gardens compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Sunshine Gardens risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.0This tracttract 3801024.0Indianapolisparent city4.2Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 7

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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.

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)

  • 198Total filings 2020-21
  • 2.6Avg monthly (observed)
  • 2.0Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 1.27×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran near baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Indianapolis, IN as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Sunshine Gardens. 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Sunshine Gardens

The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 8.7/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.9/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 2/10.

Against the Marion County average of 4.2, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.2 points. Severe burden reaches 9%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

SNAP participation runs 6.9% against 15.2% nationally. 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 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Against average income of $88,693, annual rent is just 15%. Statewide the IN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Average gross rent is $1,117, close to the Indianapolis average.

34% 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.

Frequently asked

About tract 18097380102

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18097380102?

Census tract 18097380102 in the Sunshine Gardens neighborhood scores 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 18097380102?

Median gross rent is $1,117/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 12% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 18097380102?

7.6% of residents in tract 18097380102 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,183.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 18097380102?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 7th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 2th, household 10th, minority 71th, housing 21th.
Q5

Is tract 18097380102 considered part of Sunshine Gardens?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18097380102 fall within Sunshine Gardens (neighborhood centroid within 1.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 18097380102 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 1.27× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings returned near baseline. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Indianapolis eviction risk, IN), 2020-2021.
Q7

What share of households in tract 18097380102 struggle to pay rent?

About 11.0% 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. 7.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 18097380102 compare to Indianapolis overall?

Tract 18097380102 scores 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 18097380102 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 0% 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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