Ballard Eviction Risk: Moderate , Evansville
Tract 18163002300 · Vanderburgh County, IN · pop 2,206 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi
Census tract 18163002300 runs through the Ballard neighborhood of Evansville. With 2,206 residents, it scores $1/10 for landlords. On the national scale it ranks #51,264 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 63% of renter households, a severe level, and 21% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $914 a month while the average household earns $44,688 a year, roughly 25% of income at the averages. About 56% 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 37.9898, -87.5505 · click any tract to drill in
Why Ballard scores 4.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Ballard compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 68
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 88%Socioeconomic
- 89%Household composition
- 34%Racial/ethnic minority
- 16%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
- 60%Grade C
- 0%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)
- 713Total filings over 10 yrs
- 13.72%Avg annual filing rate
- 16.9%Peak (2009)
- 61Filings in 2013 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Ballard. 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.
- 18.3%Housing insecurity
- 15.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 26.6%Food insecurity
- 19.9%SNAP enrollment
- 13.1%Transit barriers
- 12.2%No health insurance
- 22.8%Frequent mental distress
- 40.0%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Ballard
The heaviest input here is economic stress at 3.8/10. 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 about the same as the Vanderburgh County average of 4.8 and in line with the Indiana statewide average of 4.7. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 68th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
HOLC surveyors mapped this tract in the 1930s with a dominant grade of C ("Declining"), above the redlined D tier. The grading still shaped decades of lending and development in the surrounding area.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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Highest-risk tracts in Evansville
Top eight tracts in Evansville ranked by composite eviction-risk score.