Within neighborhood
86
th percentile
High
Neighborhood · Ranked #39,308 of 84,120 nationally
Ballard Eviction Risk: Moderate , Evansville
Tract 18163001300 · Vanderburgh County, IN · pop 1,479 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi
With a score of 4.6/10, tract 18163001300 in the Ballard area of Evansville, IN reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 1,479. The severe-burden share is 54%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Risk score
4.6
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 34%
Stable renters 10%
Owners 56%
Tract context
Occupied units779
Renter share44.2%
SVI overall0.78
Poverty rate26.5%
Median income$35,625
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
87
th percentile
High
Within county
97
th percentile
Very High
Within state
78
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Evansville and the region
Centroid at 37.9606, -87.5524 · click any tract to drill in
Why Ballard scores 4.6
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
26.5% poverty · this tract
6.6
Supply constraint
$819 rent vs county FMR
2.8
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: 78
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 94%Socioeconomic
- 88%Household composition
- 76%Racial/ethnic minority
- 18%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 35%Grade B
- 65%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)
- 933Total filings over 10 yrs
- 28.56%Avg annual filing rate
- 35.5%Peak (2002)
- 94Filings in 2013 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 22% 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.
- 25.7%Housing insecurity
- 21.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 36.9%Food insecurity
- 30.2%SNAP enrollment
- 18.0%Transit barriers
- 14.6%No health insurance
- 22.8%Frequent mental distress
- 42.9%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Ballard
Against Vanderburgh County at 41.1%, roughly three in four of renters here are cost-burdened. The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Food insecurity runs 36.9% against 17.8% nationally.
Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.6/10. The poverty rate is 27%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
On the softer side, state political climate reads 2/10. Housing insecurity runs 25.7% against 14.2% nationally.
Average gross rent is $819, 16% below the Evansville average. The filing record is not thin: 933 evictions over 10 years of observation. It sits 0.9 points above the Vanderburgh County average of 3.7.
Filings peaked in 2002 at 35.5% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.
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.
Frequently asked
About tract 18163001300
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18163001300?
Census tract 18163001300 in the Ballard neighborhood scores 4.6/10 (Moderate 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 18163001300?
Median gross rent is $819/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 77% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 18163001300?
26.5% of residents in tract 18163001300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,479.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 18163001300?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 78th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 94th, household 88th, minority 76th, housing 18th.
Q5
Is tract 18163001300 considered part of Ballard?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18163001300 fall within Ballard (neighborhood centroid within 0.9 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 18163001300?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 933 eviction filings across 10 validated years in tract 18163001300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 28.56% of renter households, peaking at 35.5% in 2002. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 18163001300 struggle to pay rent?
About 25.7% 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. 21.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 18163001300 compare to Evansville overall?
Tract 18163001300 scores 4.6/10, higher than 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 18163001300 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 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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