Marina Shores Eviction Risk: Lower , Portage

Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.7/10. Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.9/10.

Food insecurity runs 5.4% against 17.8% nationally. Court records carry 2 eviction filings across 1 observed years. Against the Porter County average of 3.8, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.8 points.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.7% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The worst year on record was 2014, when 4.4% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 4.4% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Only 4% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. Social vulnerability reads 1.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Rent consumes only 10% of average household income of $116,042, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the IN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.