Downtown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Evansville
Tract 18163001900 · Vanderburgh County, IN · pop 1,058 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
Eviction risk in the Downtown neighborhood of Evansville centers on tract 18163001900, which scores 5.6/10 (Moderate tier) and is home to 1,058 residents. It lands near the 61st percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
About 62% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 25% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $795 a month while the average household earns $24,245 a year, roughly 39% of income at the averages. About 80% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Evansville and the region
Centroid at 37.9817, -87.5803 · click any tract to drill in
Why Downtown scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Downtown compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 90
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 99%Socioeconomic
- 45%Household composition
- 41%Racial/ethnic minority
- 87%Housing & transportation
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
- 0%Grade B
- 54%Grade C
- 3%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)
- 588Total filings over 10 yrs
- 13.88%Avg annual filing rate
- 16.6%Peak (2002)
- 42Filings in 2013 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Downtown. 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.
- 24.9%Housing insecurity
- 23.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 40.2%Food insecurity
- 36.5%SNAP enrollment
- 19.8%Transit barriers
- 15.7%No health insurance
- 24.7%Frequent mental distress
- 49.7%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Downtown
The heaviest input here is economic stress at 9.6/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Evansville eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Vanderburgh County average of 4.8 and above the Indiana statewide average of 4.7. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 24.9% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 23.1% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
Part of this tract, about 3% of its area, sat in the redlined grade-D zone on 1930s HOLC maps, though its dominant grade was C ("Declining"). That lending history still correlates with present-day rent burden.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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