Wheat Ridge Eviction Risk: Elevated

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.9/10. Severe burden reaches 20%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.4/10. Against the Jefferson County average of 4.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points. At $1,278 a month, rents run 19% under what the rest of Wheat Ridge commands.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 36 filings here across 1 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2010, when 5.7% 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 5.7% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 80% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 5.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $89,091, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.