Spivak Eviction Risk: Elevated , Lakewood

59% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Jefferson County average of 48.0%. Running cool, economic stress reads 1.3/10.

It sits 1.9 points above the Jefferson County average of 4.7. On the high side, local political climate reads 8.3/10.

17% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 19 filings here across 1 tracked years.

Average gross rent is $1,868, 13% above the Edgewater average. Filings peaked in 2010 at 3.4% of renter households. 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 3.4% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #14,906 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.7/10.

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.