Discovery Park District Eviction Risk: Elevated , West Lafayette

Against Tippecanoe County at 49.7%, roughly two in three of renters here are cost-burdened. Annualized rent equals 101% of average household income of $14,697, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10.

The poverty rate is 71%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. On the high side, 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. This is renter territory: 85% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Food insecurity runs 31.5% against 17.8% nationally.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.3% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. 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 5.8/10, 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 $1,240, close to the West Lafayette average.

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.