Indianapolis Just Got a Live Eviction Data Dashboard
Indy Eviction Data Dashboard - Image showing map of Number of Cases by Indianapolis / Marion County Neighborhood Year to Date
Indianapolis tenants, advocates, and researchers now have a near real-time view of one of the city's most persistent housing problems. Today, the Indy Housing Project launched the Indy Eviction Data Dashboard, built in partnership with City Rising, Anymouse, and Better Idea Holding Company. You can explore it now through this link.
What is it?
The dashboard pulls publicly available court records and turns them into charts, maps, and key metrics that update automatically and regularly. It includes:
Key metrics — total eviction filings for the current week, month, and year, updated daily
Filing trends by court — a breakdown of cases filed in each Marion County small claims court and Marion Superior Court
Monthly and cumulative trends — charts showing how filings rise and fall month to month, plus running totals for the year
Geographic distribution — three separate maps showing filings by neighborhood, census tract, and zip code, so users can zoom in on specific communities or take in citywide patterns
The new dashboard sources its data through a subscription with Doxpop, which aggregates court records from townships, circuit, and superior courts across Indiana, identifying eviction cases by their "EV" case designation. Custom scripts built by Kristina Hartley of Anymouse, LLC clean and process the records into the dashboard's charts and maps.
A few important caveats
The dashboard tracks eviction filings, not completed evictions. A filing marks the start of a legal case, not its outcome, so some filings can end in dismissal or agreement rather than an actual displacement. We are currently working on tools to track completed evictions and displacement going forward.
Open for other communities, too
Notably, the Indy Housing Project and its partners are making the underlying scripts available for free to other organizations in Indiana or Michigan who want to build similar dashboards for their own communities, with technical documentation available on GitHub.
For now, the dashboard is live and updating, giving Indianapolis tenants, organizers, and policymakers an important tool with current, local, and detailed eviction data in one place.