Old Northside Historic District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Indianapolis
Tract 18097390900 · Marion County, IN · pop 3,170 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
With a score of 4.2/10, tract 18097390900 in the Old Northside Historic District area of Indianapolis, IN reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,170 residents. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 8.7/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Indianapolis and the region
Centroid at 39.7894, -86.1463 · click any tract to drill in
Why Old Northside Historic District scores 4.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Old Northside Historic District compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 39
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 51%Socioeconomic
- 3%Household composition
- 57%Racial/ethnic minority
- 72%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
- 61%Grade C
- 39%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)
- 181Total filings 2020-21
- 2.4Avg monthly (observed)
- 3.5Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.68×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Indianapolis, IN as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 9.2%Housing insecurity
- 7.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 10.7%Food insecurity
- 6.1%SNAP enrollment
- 6.4%Transit barriers
- 6.2%No health insurance
- 15.8%Frequent mental distress
- 20.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Old Northside Historic District
24% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Running cool, state political climate reads 2/10. Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.1/10.
The poverty rate is 19%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. SNAP participation runs 6.1% against 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity runs 10.7% against 17.8% nationally.
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. On the national scale it lands near the 46th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Against average income of $80,250, annual rent is just 18%. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
Rent takes 30% or more of income for 45% of renters.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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