Purdue Research Park Eviction Risk: Elevated , West Lafayette

The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10. The poverty rate is 44%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.8/10.

Cost burden runs around two-thirds here against 49.7% across Tippecanoe County. Against the Tippecanoe County average of 4.5, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.4 points.

Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 9.6/10. This is renter territory: 79% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Set annual rent against average income of $41,025 and the ratio lands at 36%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

On the national scale it lands near the 84th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. 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 $1,229, close to the West Lafayette average.

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