Indy Eviction Data Dashboard
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The Indy Housing Project is proud to present the new Indy Eviction Data Dashboard. In partnership with City Rising, Anymouse, and Better Idea Holding Company, we developed a data visualization tool that will display up-to-date eviction data on the Indy Housing Project website. The data will be updated every week and will include:
weekly, monthly, and year-to-date eviction counts
eviction counts by township courts and the Marion County Superior Court
a heat map of eviction locations and hotspots in Indianapolis
eviction counts by zip code and census tract.
In the coming weeks and months, as more data becomes available, we hope to continue developing additional data visualizations and analyses.
Why do we need an eviction dashboard for Indianapolis?
Open access to updated eviction data is important for many reasons. First, the lack of access to this data obscures the extent of the ongoing affordable and stable housing crisis at the national level, in Indiana, and in many cities and towns, including Indianapolis. Indianapolis is one of the cities in the country with the highest number of evictions. Understanding the evolution of these trends, their geographic distributions, and their historical variations is key to addressing them and their impacts on people and communities.
Tracking housing instability through eviction data helps inform evidence-based policies to prevent displacement and homelessness. Access to this data can enable policymakers and community organizations to develop targeted interventions for specific neighborhoods, communities, or groups more vulnerable to evictions. In addition, data support the evaluation of existing policy interventions (or lack thereof) and ongoing needs, and enable researchers and advocates to understand the impacts of evictions on areas such as health, education, and economic stability, all of which are intrinsically tied to and informed by housing stability.
Don’t we already have eviction dashboards for Indianapolis?
Yes, we do! However, these existing dashboards have limitations. The evictions data dashboard operated by the City of Indianapolis Office of Public Health and Safety has not been updated since December 2025. Given the City’s pause of the Tenant Advocacy Project and eviction intervention efforts, it is unclear whether this dashboard will be updated in the future. Additionally, the City’s eviction dashboard is difficult to locate and access within the City’s Office of Public Health and Safety website.
The SAVI eviction dashboard is no longer being updated because the funding that supported it has expired. Updates to this dashboard ceased in 2024.
The Eviction Lab dashboard, focused on Indianapolis, is updated on a monthly basis in terms of total count and includes eviction hotspots and their cumulative geographical distribution on a map, but it does not have weekly data nor is it broken down by township courts. Similarly, the LSC - Legal Service Corporation's Civil Court Data Initiative provides monthly and weekly data updates, but it does not display the geographical distribution of the data in any way.
Our hope is to present a comprehensive dashboard that makes this key eviction data available frequently, in an accessible and useful way, supporting tenant organizing efforts, legal aid, and policymaking.