Southern View Eviction Risk: Lower , Lafayette

Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.8/10. Against the Tippecanoe County average of 4.5, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.5 points.

On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.9/10. Severe burden reaches 15%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

SNAP participation runs 4.6% against 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity runs 9.1% against 17.8% nationally. Average gross rent is $1,197, 11% above the Lafayette average.

That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $88,015, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Statewide the IN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 47% of renters.

26% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.