Ballard Eviction Risk: Moderate , Evansville

54% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Vanderburgh County average of 41.1%. Severe burden reaches 22%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.6/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10. The poverty rate is 19%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Food insecurity runs 27.4% against 17.8% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 955 filings here across 10 tracked years.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.2% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The worst year on record was 2003, when 21.9% of renter households were served. 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 18.2% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #47,371 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.