Happy Hollow Heights Eviction Risk: Lower , Lafayette
Tract 18157005200 · Tippecanoe County, IN · pop 4,601 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
The Happy Hollow Heights area of Lafayette is where census tract 18157005200 sits, home to 4,601 residents. Its landlord eviction-risk score is 5.7/10. It lands near the 65th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 58% of renter households, a severe level, and 21% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $913 a month against an average household income of $82,578 a year, roughly 13% of income at the averages. Renters make up 42% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Lafayette and the region
Centroid at 40.4432, -86.9070 · click any tract to drill in
Why Happy Hollow Heights scores 3.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Happy Hollow Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 17
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 13%Socioeconomic
- 21%Household composition
- 28%Racial/ethnic minority
- 38%Housing & transportation
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Happy Hollow Heights. 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.
- 7.2%Housing insecurity
- 5.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 8.5%Food insecurity
- 4.1%SNAP enrollment
- 5.4%Transit barriers
- 5.3%No health insurance
- 14.6%Frequent mental distress
- 22.4%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Happy Hollow Heights
What moves this score most is tenant organizing strength at 9.8/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Lafayette eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Tippecanoe County average of 5.4 and above the Indiana statewide average of 4.7. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 17th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
In CDC survey modeling, about 7.2% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 5.4% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 18157005200
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