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Neighborhood · Ranked #59,654 of 84,120 nationally

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.

Risk score
3.4
Lower
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 19% Stable renters 20% Owners 61%
Tract context
Occupied units3,141
Renter share38.2%
SVI overall0.29
Poverty rate14.3%
Median income$90,831

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 3 tracts In Sunshine Gardens
Moderate
Within parent city
30 th percentile
Rank, 30th percentileLowHigh
#161 of 231 tracts In Indianapolis
Low
Within county
33 th percentile
Rank, 33rd percentileLowHigh
#170 of 253 tracts In Marion County
Low
Within state
46 th percentile
Rank, 46th percentileLowHigh
#911 of 1,693 tracts In Indiana
Moderate
Geographic context

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-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
14.3% poverty · this tract
3.6
Supply constraint
$1,770 rent vs county FMR
8.8
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 / state3.4This tracttract 3801034.0Indianapolisparent city4.2Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 29

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)

  • 759Total filings 2020-21
  • 9.9Avg monthly (observed)
  • 4.8Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 2.04×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran above 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 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.

Frequently asked

About tract 18097380103

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18097380103?

Census tract 18097380103 in the Sunshine Gardens neighborhood scores 3.4/10 (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 18097380103?

Median gross rent is $1,770/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 49% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 18097380103?

14.3% of residents in tract 18097380103 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 9,570.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 18097380103?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 29th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 38th, household 29th, minority 49th, housing 23th.
Q5

Is tract 18097380103 considered part of Sunshine Gardens?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18097380103 fall within Sunshine Gardens (neighborhood centroid within 0.8 miles, OSM data).
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 18097380103 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 2.04× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran above pre-pandemic norms. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Indianapolis eviction risk, IN), 2020-2021.
Q7

What share of households in tract 18097380103 struggle to pay rent?

About 10.7% 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. 8.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 18097380103 compare to Indianapolis overall?

Tract 18097380103 scores 3.4/10, 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 18097380103 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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