Riverside Eviction Risk: Moderate , Evansville
Tract 18163001700 · Vanderburgh County, IN · pop 1,738 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
Census tract 18163001700 covers part of the Riverside area of Evansville, IN, and scores 4.6/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 1,738 residents. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Evansville and the region
Centroid at 37.9653, -87.5683 · click any tract to drill in
Why Riverside scores 4.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Riverside compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 89
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 95%Socioeconomic
- 44%Household composition
- 42%Racial/ethnic minority
- 94%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 24%Grade C
- 42%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.
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)
- 754Total filings over 10 yrs
- 8.10%Avg annual filing rate
- 14.0%Peak (2005)
- 44Filings in 2013 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Riverside. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 14.2%Housing insecurity
- 11.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 20.1%Food insecurity
- 14.0%SNAP enrollment
- 10.2%Transit barriers
- 8.9%No health insurance
- 19.0%Frequent mental distress
- 35.0%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Riverside
79% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.6/10. The severe-burden share is 18%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
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.
Average gross rent is $796, 18% below the Evansville average. The filing record is not thin: 754 evictions over 10 years of observation. Against the Vanderburgh County average of 3.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.9 points.
Against Vanderburgh County at 41.1%, 37% of renters here are cost-burdened. The worst year on record was 2005, when 14.0% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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 8.1% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 53rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
Social vulnerability reads 9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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