Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Ballard Eviction Risk: Lower , Evansville
Tract 18163000600 · Vanderburgh County, IN · pop 1,972 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
18163000600 is a census tract in the Ballard area of Evansville, IN. It scores 3/10 for landlords. It is home to 1,972 residents. Against Vanderburgh County at 41.1%, 23% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 5%
Stable renters 17%
Owners 78%
Tract context
Occupied units783
Renter share22.6%
SVI overall0.18
Poverty rate11.1%
Median income$90,515
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
0
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
17
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
34
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Evansville and the region
Centroid at 37.9664, -87.5357 · click any tract to drill in
Why Ballard scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Evansville
3.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.5
State political climate
Indiana legislature & governorship
2.0
Economic stress
11.1% poverty · this tract
2.8
Supply constraint
$1,265 rent vs county FMR
7.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Evansville
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Evansville
2.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Evansville
2.0
How Ballard compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 18
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 50%Socioeconomic
- 10%Household composition
- 35%Racial/ethnic minority
- 9%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: A: Best
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 71%Grade A
- 1%Grade B
- 21%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Eviction filings
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 217Total filings over 10 yrs
- 11.87%Avg annual filing rate
- 16.6%Peak (2011)
- 11Filings in 2013 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 35% over the past 10 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Ballard. 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.
- 9.0%Housing insecurity
- 6.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 10.7%Food insecurity
- 5.7%SNAP enrollment
- 6.5%Transit barriers
- 6.4%No health insurance
- 17.8%Frequent mental distress
- 25.5%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Ballard
The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.6/10. At $1,265 a month, rents run 30% over what the rest of Evansville commands.
The severe-burden share is 19%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2/10. The voucher gap is 20.0%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.
SNAP participation runs 5.7% against 15.2% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 217 filings here across 10 tracked years. Food insecurity runs 10.7% against 17.8% nationally.
Against the Vanderburgh County average of 3.7, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.7 points. The worst year on record was 2011, when 16.6% of renter households were served.
This ground was mapped A ("Best") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Evansville. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 11.9% of renter households face a filing.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 18163000600
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18163000600?
Census tract 18163000600 in the Ballard neighborhood scores 3/10 (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
What is the average rent in tract 18163000600?
Median gross rent is $1,265/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 23% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 18163000600?
11.1% of residents in tract 18163000600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,972.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 18163000600?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 18th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 50th, household 10th, minority 35th, housing 9th.
Q5
Is tract 18163000600 considered part of Ballard?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18163000600 fall within Ballard (neighborhood centroid within 0.8 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 18163000600?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 217 eviction filings across 10 validated years in tract 18163000600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 11.87% of renter households, peaking at 16.6% in 2011. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 18163000600 struggle to pay rent?
About 9.0% 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. 6.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 18163000600 compare to Evansville overall?
Tract 18163000600 scores 3/10, right in line with the parent city of Evansville at 3.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Evansville eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 18163000600 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of A. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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