Garyton Eviction Risk: Moderate , Portage
Tract 18127050508 · Porter County, IN · pop 6,436 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi
With a score of 5.1/10, tract 18127050508 in the Garyton area of Portage, IN reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Pulling hardest the other way is eviction-process difficulty at 1.6/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Portage and the region
Centroid at 41.5578, -87.2021 · click any tract to drill in
Why Garyton scores 5.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Garyton compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 65
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 63%Socioeconomic
- 79%Household composition
- 55%Racial/ethnic minority
- 45%Housing & transportation
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
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 84Total filings over 2 yrs
- 3.79%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.2%Peak (2014)
- 38Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Garyton. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 13.6%Housing insecurity
- 9.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 17.0%Food insecurity
- 9.7%SNAP enrollment
- 8.6%Transit barriers
- 10.2%No health insurance
- 18.2%Frequent mental distress
- 32.5%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Garyton
roughly one in two of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Porter County average of 38.1%. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10. The severe-burden share is 17%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Against the Porter County average of 3.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.7/10.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 84 filings here across 2 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2014, when 4.2% of renter households were served.
In a typical year about 3.8% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #31,049 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the IN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter.
Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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Top eight tracts in Portage ranked by composite eviction-risk score.