Within neighborhood
17
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #50,654 of 84,120 nationally
University Heights Eviction Risk: Lower , Indianapolis
Tract 18097380800 · Marion County, IN · pop 2,789 · neighborhood within 1.4 mi
Census tract 18097380800 covers part of the University Heights area of Indianapolis, IN, and scores 3.9/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,789 residents. Severe burden reaches 37%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
3.9
Lower
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 14%
Stable renters 18%
Owners 68%
Tract context
Occupied units1,259
Renter share31.5%
SVI overall0.33
Poverty rate10.4%
Median income$56,189
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
47
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
46
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
60
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Indianapolis and the region
Centroid at 39.6866, -86.1252 · click any tract to drill in
Why University Heights scores 3.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal 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
10.4% poverty · this tract
2.6
Supply constraint
$1,150 rent vs county FMR
4.0
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 University Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 33
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 62%Socioeconomic
- 11%Household composition
- 30%Racial/ethnic minority
- 27%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 67%Grade B
- 33%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.
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)
- 162Total filings 2020-21
- 2.1Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.5Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.40×Ratio to 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 University Heights. 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.
- 11.9%Housing insecurity
- 9.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 16.3%Food insecurity
- 9.5%SNAP enrollment
- 8.5%Transit barriers
- 10.5%No health insurance
- 19.0%Frequent mental distress
- 32.5%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in University Heights
The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 8.7/10. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2/10. Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.1/10.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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 40% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 43% of renters.
It tracks the Marion County average of 4.2 closely. Average gross rent is $1,150, close to the Indianapolis average. Annual rent works out to 25% of average household income of $56,189.
32% 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 18097380800
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18097380800?
Census tract 18097380800 in the University Heights neighborhood scores 3.9/10 (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 18097380800?
Median gross rent is $1,150/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 43% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 18097380800?
10.4% of residents in tract 18097380800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,789.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 18097380800?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 33th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 62th, household 11th, minority 30th, housing 27th.
Q5
Is tract 18097380800 considered part of University Heights?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18097380800 fall within University Heights (neighborhood centroid within 1.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 18097380800 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 1.40× 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 18097380800 struggle to pay rent?
About 11.9% 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. 9.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 18097380800 compare to Indianapolis overall?
Tract 18097380800 scores 3.9/10, right in line with 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 18097380800 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 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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