Wallace Triangle Eviction Risk: Lower , Lafayette

Against Tippecanoe County at 49.7%, 36% of renters here are cost-burdened. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.8/10.

Running cool, state political climate reads 2/10. Severe burden reaches 15%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

It sits 1.2 points below the Tippecanoe County average of 4.5. SNAP participation runs 4.9% against 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity runs 9.0% against 17.8% nationally.

At $919 a month, rents run 15% under what the rest of Lafayette commands. That is riskier than roughly 27% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 14% of average household income of $81,250, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. 42% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.