South Bend, Indiana

RENTER HOUSEHOLDS: 32,420

The state of Indiana implemented an eviction moratorium that ran from March 19 to August 14, 2020. Courts in St. Joseph County (South Bend) began accepting new eviction filings and processing cases again after that moratorium lifted.

More detail on eviction protections in Indiana can be found on the COVID-19 Housing Policy Scorecard.

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Eviction Filings By Week

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Weekly Filings

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Filings Trend

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Local Moratorium

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CDC Order

* Filings in the last week may be undercounted as a result of processing delays. These counts will be revised in the following week.

Changes in eviction filings

Eviction filings in South Bend ran above historical averages in January and February of 2020.1 They dropped in March and ran well below average in April and May 2020. Filings jumped after the state-wide moratorium was lifted in August 2020.

  1. Eviction filing data for St. Joseph County were collected by LSC. Historical averages cover the years 2016-2019.

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Eviction Hotspots

Eviction filings aren’t spread evenly across cities: a small number of buildings are responsible for a disproportionate share of eviction cases. This pattern, which existed before the pandemic, has continued in 2020 and beyond. We analyzed eviction records in St. Joseph County to determine where the most cases are being filed during the pandemic. This is a list of eviction hot spots—the 10 buildings responsible for the most filings—over the course of the full pandemic and over the last eight weeks. We also display the plaintiff name most often listed with a given building in the court filings.

Eviction Hotspot data will be updated quarterly.

The geography of changes in eviction filings

St. Joseph County is divided into 75 census tracts. In each of those tracts, we map the number of eviction filings over the last four weeks. If you toggle below you can see these numbers as eviction filing rates—the number of eviction filings divided by the number of renter households in the area—or compared to the typical number of filings in the average year.1 2

  1. Eviction filing data for St. Joseph County were collected by LSC. Historical averages cover the years 2016-2019.
  2. Tract-level breakdown of renter race/ethnicity determined using American Community Survey (ACS) estimates for 2015–2019.

Eviction filings by neighborhood demographics

American Community Survey (ACS) data allow us to categorize neighborhoods by their racial/ethnic majority: White, Black, Latinx, or Other/None.

When you toggle the figure to see data relative to average, comparisons are being drawn—within the same set of neighborhoods defined by racial/ethnic majority—between filings over the last six months and average filings in 2016–2019.1

  1. Eviction filing data for St. Joseph County were collected by LSC. Historical averages cover the years 2016-2019.

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