South Bend Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 18141011100 · St. Joseph County, IN · pop 4,747 · 20% of tract blocks fall in South Bend
18141011100 is a census tract in South Bend, IN. It scores 4.1/10 for landlords. Population here is 4,747. Against St. Joseph County at 41.2%, 17% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across South Bend and the region
Centroid at 41.6775, -86.3346 · click any tract to drill in
Why South Bend scores 4.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow South Bend compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 31
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 64%Socioeconomic
- 7%Household composition
- 47%Racial/ethnic minority
- 21%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
- 0%Grade C
- 0%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
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 37Total filings over 1 yrs
- 11.01%Avg annual filing rate
- 11.0%Peak (2015)
- 37Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 216Total filings 2020-21
- 2.8Avg monthly (observed)
- 4.6Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.61×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Richmond, VA as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 14.0%Housing insecurity
- 10.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 18.8%Food insecurity
- 11.4%SNAP enrollment
- 9.5%Transit barriers
- 11.4%No health insurance
- 19.3%Frequent mental distress
- 37.3%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in South Bend
The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10.
Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10. At $823 a month, rents run 20% under what the rest of South Bend commands. The severe-burden share is 10%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
The filing record is not thin: 37 evictions over 1 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2015, when 11.0% of renter households were served.
This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for South Bend. 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 11.0% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 44th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Only 9% 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 3.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. It tracks the St. Joseph County average of 3.8 closely.
Annual rent works out to 21% of average household income of $47,105.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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