Discovery Park District Eviction Risk: Elevated , West Lafayette

Annualized rent equals 117% of average household income of $11,875, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10.

66% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Tippecanoe County average of 49.7%. The poverty rate is 75%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

100% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.8/10.

It sits 2.4 points above the Tippecanoe County average of 4.5. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 9.6/10.

Food insecurity runs 35.3% against 17.8% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Nationally it ranks #13,349 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4.4/10. Statewide the IN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 3.0 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Average gross rent is $1,156, close to the West Lafayette average.

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