University Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Indianapolis

The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 8.7/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10.

The poverty rate is 26%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.1/10. It sits 1.2 points above the Marion County average of 4.2.

Cost burden runs 52% here against 46.3% across Marion County. Food insecurity runs 24.9% against 17.8% nationally. 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. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the IN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $1,082, close to the Indianapolis average. Annual rent works out to 28% of average household income of $45,690.

59% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.