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Downtown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Evansville

Tract 18163001900 · Vanderburgh County, IN · pop 1,058 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi

Tract 18163001900 sits in the Downtown area of Evansville eviction risk, IN, carrying an eviction-risk score of 4.6/10. Population here is 1,058. 62% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, far above the Vanderburgh County average of 41.1%.

Risk score
4.6
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 50% Stable renters 31% Owners 19%
Tract context
Occupied units488
Renter share80.3%
SVI overall0.90
Poverty rate38.5%
Median income$24,245

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 5 tracts In Downtown
Very High
Within parent city
91 th percentile
Rank, 91st percentileLowHigh
#5 of 47 tracts In Evansville
Very High
Within county
90 th percentile
Rank, 90th percentileLowHigh
#7 of 59 tracts In Vanderburgh County
High
Within state
78 th percentile
Rank, 78th percentileLowHigh
#370 of 1,693 tracts In Indiana
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Evansville and the region

Centroid at 37.9817, -87.5803 · click any tract to drill in

Why Downtown scores 4.6

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
38.5% poverty · this tract
9.6
Supply constraint
$795 rent vs county FMR
2.5
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 / state4.6This tracttract 0019003.2Evansvilleparent city3.7Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 90

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)

  • 588Total filings over 10 yrs
  • 13.88%Avg annual filing rate
  • 16.6%Peak (2002)
  • 42Filings in 2013 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2002 to 2013
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 18163001900
Filings dropped 47% 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

The dominant input is economic stress at 9.6/10. SNAP participation runs 36.5% against 15.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 39%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Annualized rent equals 39% of average household income of $24,245, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Severe burden reaches 25%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10.

This is renter territory: 80% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Disability prevalence runs 49.7% against 31.5% nationally. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.6/10.

At $795 a month, rents run 18% under what the rest of Evansville commands. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 588 filings here across 10 tracked years.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 18163001900

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18163001900?

Census tract 18163001900 in the Downtown 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 18163001900?

Median gross rent is $795/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 62% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 18163001900?

38.5% of residents in tract 18163001900 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,058.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 18163001900?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 90th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 99th, household 45th, minority 41th, housing 87th.
Q5

Is tract 18163001900 considered part of Downtown?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18163001900 fall within Downtown (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 18163001900?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 588 eviction filings across 10 validated years in tract 18163001900 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 13.88% of renter households, peaking at 16.6% in 2002. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 18163001900 struggle to pay rent?

About 24.9% 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. 23.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 18163001900 compare to Evansville overall?

Tract 18163001900 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 18163001900 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. 3% 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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