Crocker Eviction Risk: Moderate , Portage

Severe burden reaches 37%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Pulling hardest the other way is eviction-process difficulty at 1.6/10.

Running cool, state political climate reads 2/10. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.7/10. At $989 a month, rents run 20% under what the rest of Portage commands.

Against the Porter County average of 3.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.7 points. Nationally it ranks #41,206 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Only 21% 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 5.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 13% of average household income of $88,652, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

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.