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Neighborhood · Ranked #75,086 of 84,120 nationally

Discovery Park District Eviction Risk: Lower , West Lafayette

Tract 18157010400 · Tippecanoe County, IN · pop 7,685 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi

The Discovery Park District area of West Lafayette is where census tract 18157010400 sits, home to 7,685 residents. Its landlord eviction-risk score is 5.2/10. That is riskier than roughly 46% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.

Risk score
1.9
Lower
Confidence 30% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 0% Stable renters 0% Owners 100%
Tract context
SVI overall-10.00

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#5 of 5 tracts In Discovery Park District
Very Low
Within parent city
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#13 of 13 tracts In West Lafayette
Very Low
Within county
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#43 of 43 tracts In Tippecanoe County
Very Low
Within state
9 th percentile
Rank, 9th percentileLowHigh
#1,543 of 1,693 tracts In Indiana
Very Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across West Lafayette and the region

Centroid at 40.4279, -86.9251 · click any tract to drill in

Why Discovery Park District scores 1.9

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from West Lafayette
5.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.0
State political climate
Indiana legislature & governorship
2.0
Economic stress
this tract poverty rate
3.0
Supply constraint
tract rent vs county FMR
5.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from West Lafayette
9.6
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.9
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from West Lafayette
9.8
Housing court bias
Inherited from West Lafayette
9.5

How Discovery Park District compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Discovery Park District risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 1.91.9This tracttract 010400West Lafayette: 2.52.5West Lafayetteparent cityCounty: 4.24.2Countyavg tract in countyState: 3.63.6Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: -1,000

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Discovery Park District. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress

Eviction-adjacent indicators

Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Discovery Park District

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 West 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 safer side for landlords.

The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 1000th 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 17.7% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 14.0% 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.

Frequently asked

About tract 18157010400

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18157010400?

Census tract 18157010400 in the Discovery Park District neighborhood scores 1.9/10 (Lower tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

How socially vulnerable is tract 18157010400?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the -1000th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic -1000th, household -1000th, minority 54th, housing -1000th.
Q3

Is tract 18157010400 considered part of Discovery Park District?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18157010400 fall within Discovery Park District (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q4

What share of households in tract 18157010400 struggle to pay rent?

About 17.7% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 14.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q5

How does tract 18157010400 compare to West Lafayette overall?

Tract 18157010400 scores 1.9/10, lower than the parent city of West Lafayette at 2.5/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from West Lafayette eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in West Lafayette

Top eight tracts in West Lafayette ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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