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Downtown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Evansville

Tract 18163001800 · Vanderburgh County, IN · pop 681 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi

Tract 18163001800 sits in the Downtown area of Evansville eviction risk, IN, carrying an eviction-risk score of 4.5/10. It is home to 681 residents. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.

Risk score
4.5
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 34% Stable renters 46% Owners 20%
Tract context
Occupied units421
Renter share80.5%
SVI overall0.62
Poverty rate30.2%
Median income$55,436

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#5 of 5 tracts In Downtown
Very Low
Within parent city
63 th percentile
Rank, 63rd percentileLowHigh
#18 of 47 tracts In Evansville
Elevated
Within county
72 th percentile
Rank, 72nd percentileLowHigh
#17 of 59 tracts In Vanderburgh County
Elevated
Within state
72 th percentile
Rank, 72nd percentileLowHigh
#476 of 1,693 tracts In Indiana
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Evansville and the region

Centroid at 37.9742, -87.5743 · click any tract to drill in

Why Downtown scores 4.5

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local 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
30.2% poverty · this tract
7.6
Supply constraint
$1,154 rent vs county FMR
5.9
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 Downtown compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Downtown risk score vs. parent city / county / state4.5This tracttract 0018003.2Evansvilleparent city3.7Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 62

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

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.

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)

  • 98Total filings over 9 yrs
  • 6.01%Avg annual filing rate
  • 13.1%Peak (2004)
  • 8Filings in 2012 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2002 to 2013
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 18163001800
Filings dropped 100% over the past 10 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Downtown. 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 Downtown

This is renter territory: 81% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. The severe-burden share is 23%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.6/10.

The poverty rate is 30%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Running cool, state political climate reads 2/10. At $1,154 a month, rents run 18% over what the rest of Evansville commands.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 98 filings here across 9 tracked years. It sits 0.8 points above the Vanderburgh County average of 3.7. Filings peaked in 2004 at 13.1% 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. In a typical year about 6.0% 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 18163001800

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18163001800?

Census tract 18163001800 in the Downtown neighborhood scores 4.5/10 (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 18163001800?

Median gross rent is $1,154/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 43% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 18163001800?

30.2% of residents in tract 18163001800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 681.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 18163001800?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 62th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 90th, household 2th, minority 17th, housing 88th.
Q5

Is tract 18163001800 considered part of Downtown?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18163001800 fall within Downtown (neighborhood centroid within 0.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 18163001800?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 98 eviction filings across 9 validated years in tract 18163001800 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 6.01% of renter households, peaking at 13.1% in 2004. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 18163001800 struggle to pay rent?

About 11.2% 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. 9.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 18163001800 compare to Evansville overall?

Tract 18163001800 scores 4.5/10, 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 18163001800 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.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Evansville

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

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