Sloan Lake Eviction Risk: Moderate , Denver

Running hot, eviction-process difficulty reads 8.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 8.1/10. Cost burden runs 38% here against 45.4% across Denver County.

Severe burden reaches 9%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. It sits 0.9 points below the Denver County average of 6.7.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 31 filings here across 7 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2011, when 4.1% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Denver. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

In a typical year about 1.7% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 76th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Only 23% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. Social vulnerability reads 1.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Against average income of $155,000, annual rent is just 15%.

Statewide the CO average is 4.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.