Indian Hills Eviction Risk: Elevated , Lawrence
Tract 20045000400 · Douglas County, KS · pop 4,234 · neighborhood within 1.4 mi
Census tract 20045000400 sits in Indian Hills in Lawrence eviction risk, Kansas eviction laws, and carries an eviction-risk score of 5.7/10. That is riskier than roughly 65% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
About 67% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 67% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is about $752 a month. About 94% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Lawrence and the region
Centroid at 38.9525, -95.2600 · click any tract to drill in
Why Indian Hills scores 6.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Indian Hills compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 41
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 73%Socioeconomic
- 1%Household composition
- 53%Racial/ethnic minority
- 66%Housing & transportation
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Indian Hills. 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.
- 19.1%Housing insecurity
- 16.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 31.3%Food insecurity
- 21.3%SNAP enrollment
- 21.2%Transit barriers
- 12.5%No health insurance
- 30.5%Frequent mental distress
- 41.7%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Indian Hills
The score leans hardest on economic stress at $1/10. 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 Lawrence eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Douglas County average of 4.9 and above the Kansas statewide average of 4.2. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 41st 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.
In CDC survey modeling, about 19.1% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 16.3% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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