Marina Shores Eviction Risk: Lower , Portage

The clearest offset is eviction-process difficulty at 1.6/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 2/10.

On the softer side, economic stress reads 2.1/10. Severe burden reaches 14%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 72 filings here across 2 tracked years.

SNAP participation runs 8.1% against 15.2% nationally. Filings peaked in 2014 at 8.1% of renter households. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Lake Co. Gary. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

In a typical year about 6.3% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #50,654 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

At 24% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4.1/10. Rent consumes only 18% of average household income of $77,955, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.