Desert Ridge Eviction Risk: Lower
4 census tracts · pop 16,071 · pop-weighted Eviction Risk Score 3/10 · range 3–3
Desert Ridge is a 4-tract neighborhood of Phoenix, AZ and houses 16,071 people. The Eviction Risk Score is 3/10, in the Lower tier. Average gross rent is $2,456, 55% above the Phoenix average of $1,582.
Pulling the other way is rent-regulation exposure, at 1/10. Against a Phoenix baseline of 31.0%, 42% of renters here cross the 30%-of-income line. Well under the midpoint is economic stress, at 1.2/10.
The voucher gap is 25.9%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which shows up as churn rather than arrears. 16% are severely burdened, paying half their income or more in rent. That cohort has no absorption capacity for an unexpected bill, and it is where non-payment filings originate.
CDC survey data puts housing insecurity at 5.4% of adults, against 14.2% nationally. Running hot is supply constraint at 7.6/10.
Filings are well documented here: 140 across 2 observed tracts. SNAP participation is 4.0% of households versus 15.2% nationally.
Filing activity peaked in 2001 at 11.8% of renter households. The most recent observed rate, 2.0% in 2005, is well off that peak.
Among the 113 mapped neighborhoods of Phoenix, it ranks #84 by risk, the lower third. For a like-for-like read, Vista del Cerro and Overland Trail score within a fraction of it.
Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually reflect a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.
The area figure travels well to individual addresses here, though the per-tract table below still carries the detail. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.
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Risk heat across Desert Ridge and the region
Click any tract to drill in · 4 tracts span score 3–3
Why Desert Ridge scores 3
9 axes · pop-weighted · 1 = landlord-friendlyDesert Ridge vs. parent city, state, U.S.
Eviction Risk Score (0–10 scale).
How uniformly does eviction risk play out in Desert Ridge?
Left: distribution of constituent tract scores. Right: every tract as a heat square. Click any square to drill in.
4 tracts in Desert Ridge
Ranked highest-risk first. Click for per-tract detail.
| Tract↕ | Score↕ | Pop↕ | % over 30% on rent↕ | Average rent↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04013615002 | 3 | 4,870 | 34% | $2,342 |
| 04013615100 | 3 | 4,586 | 36% | $2,871 |
| 04013103219 | 3 | 3,461 | 54% | $2,135 |
| 04013615202 | 3 | 3,154 | 48% | $2,379 |
CDC SVI percentile: 15
Pop-weighted across 4 tracts. Higher = more vulnerable to disaster, displacement, and rent shocks. Source: CDC/ATSDR SVI 2022.
Court-record eviction history in Desert Ridge
Aggregated across 2 validated constituent tracts. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households, pop-weighted.
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 140Total filings (sum)
- 4.38%Avg annual filing rate
- 11.8%Peak year (2001)
- 1.80%Latest filed (2005)
Eviction-adjacent indicators in Desert Ridge
Average across all constituent tracts, population-weighted. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh) crude prevalence.
- 5.4%Housing insecurity
- 3.3%Utility shutoff threat
- 6.3%Food insecurity
- 3.9%SNAP enrollment
- 5.1%No health insurance
- 21.4%Any disability
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