Sunshine Gardens Eviction Risk: Lower , Indianapolis
Tract 18097380103 · Marion County, IN · pop 9,570 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
Census tract 18097380103 covers part of the Sunshine Gardens area of Indianapolis, IN, and scores 3.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 9,570. At $1,770 a month, rents run 53% over what the rest of Indianapolis commands.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Indianapolis and the region
Centroid at 39.6787, -86.2038 · click any tract to drill in
Why Sunshine Gardens scores 3.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Sunshine Gardens compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 29
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 38%Socioeconomic
- 29%Household composition
- 49%Racial/ethnic minority
- 23%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
- 8%Grade C
- 0%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)
- 759Total filings 2020-21
- 9.9Avg monthly (observed)
- 4.8Pre-pandemic baseline
- 2.04×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above 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.
- 10.7%Housing insecurity
- 8.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 13.4%Food insecurity
- 7.5%SNAP enrollment
- 7.4%Transit barriers
- 8.2%No health insurance
- 17.8%Frequent mental distress
- 24.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Sunshine Gardens
The voucher gap is 38.0%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. 27% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
What pushes it up most is supply constraint at 8.8/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.7/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 2/10.
SNAP participation runs 7.5% against 15.2% nationally. Against the Marion County average of 4.2, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.8 points. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 29% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 3.6/10. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.
49% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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