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Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally

Knob Hill Eviction Risk: Lower , Evansville

Tract 18163010207 · Vanderburgh County, IN · pop 3,275 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi

18163010207 is a census tract in the Knob Hill area of Melody Hill, IN. It scores 3/10 for landlords. The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10.

Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 3% Stable renters 5% Owners 92%
Tract context
Occupied units1,319
Renter share7.7%
SVI overall0.04
Poverty rate4.0%
Median income$87,563

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 2 tracts In Knob Hill
Very Low
Within parent city
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Evansville
Moderate
Within county
22 th percentile
Rank, 22nd percentileLowHigh
#46 of 59 tracts In Vanderburgh County
Low
Within state
34 th percentile
Rank, 34th percentileLowHigh
#1,115 of 1,693 tracts In Indiana
Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across Evansville and the region

Centroid at 38.0192, -87.5242 · click any tract to drill in

Why Knob Hill scores 3

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Evansville
5.1
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.5
State political climate
Indiana legislature & governorship
2.0
Economic stress
4.0% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$991 rent vs county FMR
4.4
Rent control risk
Inherited from Evansville
2.2
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.6
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Evansville
2.6
Housing court bias
Inherited from Evansville
2.3

How Knob Hill compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Knob Hill risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.0This tracttract 0102073.2Evansvilleparent city3.7Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 4

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.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Knob Hill. 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 Knob Hill

Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.6/10. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.6/10. SNAP participation runs 4.6% against 15.2% nationally.

Cost burden runs roughly one in three here against 41.1% across Vanderburgh County. Food insecurity runs 9.0% against 17.8% nationally. It sits 0.7 points below the Vanderburgh County average of 3.7.

Average gross rent is $991, 9% below the Melody Hill average. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Evansville. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 8% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

Social vulnerability reads 1.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 14% of average household income of $87,563, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.

Frequently asked

About tract 18163010207

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 18163010207?

Census tract 18163010207 in the Knob Hill neighborhood scores 3/10 (Lower 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 18163010207?

Median gross rent is $991/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 35% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 18163010207?

4.0% of residents in tract 18163010207 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,275.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 18163010207?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 4th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 4th, household 56th, minority 25th, housing 2th.
Q5

Is tract 18163010207 considered part of Knob Hill?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 18163010207 fall within Knob Hill (neighborhood centroid within 1.0 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 18163010207 struggle to pay rent?

About 7.5% 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. 5.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 18163010207 compare to Evansville overall?

Tract 18163010207 scores 3/10, right in line with 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.
Q8

Was tract 18163010207 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.
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