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Cable Car Square Eviction Risk: Lower , Dubuque

Tract 19061000702 · Dubuque County, IA · pop 3,429 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi

Census tract 19061000702 sits in Cable Car Square in Dubuque eviction risk, Iowa eviction laws, and carries an eviction-risk score of 4.8/10. That is riskier than roughly 32% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.

About 39% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a high level, and 27% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $887 a month against an average household income of $53,914 a year, roughly 20% of income at the averages. Renters make up 46% of occupied homes.

Risk score
3.5
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 18% Stable renters 28% Owners 54%
Tract context
Occupied units1,566
Renter share46.3%
SVI overall0.58
Poverty rate9.7%
Median income$53,914

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Cable Car Square
Moderate
Within parent city
55 th percentile
Rank, 55th percentileLowHigh
#10 of 21 tracts In Dubuque
Elevated
Within county
65 th percentile
Rank, 65th percentileLowHigh
#10 of 27 tracts In Dubuque County
Elevated
Within state
62 th percentile
Rank, 62nd percentileLowHigh
#340 of 896 tracts In Iowa
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Dubuque and the region

Centroid at 42.4952, -90.6769 · click any tract to drill in

Why Cable Car Square scores 3.5

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Dubuque
5.4
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.9
State political climate
Iowa legislature & governorship
2.3
Economic stress
9.7% poverty · this tract
2.4
Supply constraint
$887 rent vs county FMR
3.9
Rent control risk
Inherited from Dubuque
5.7
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.1
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Dubuque
7.4
Housing court bias
Inherited from Dubuque
5.8

How Cable Car Square compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Cable Car Square risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 3.53.5This tracttract 000702Dubuque: 2.72.7Dubuqueparent cityCounty: 3.03.0Countyavg tract in countyState: 3.33.3Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 58

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Eviction filings

Court-record eviction history

Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1

Historic baseline (2000–2018)

  • 62Total filings over 3 yrs
  • 3.67%Avg annual filing rate
  • 4.9%Peak (2005)
  • 17Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2004 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 190610007022004: 18 filings (3.18/100 renter HHs)2005: 27 filings (4.94/100 renter HHs)2015: 17 filings (2.90/100 renter HHs)
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress

Eviction-adjacent indicators

Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Cable Car Square

The heaviest input here is tenant organizing strength at 7.4/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Dubuque eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.

Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Dubuque County average of 4.8 and above the Iowa statewide average of 4.3. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.

Part of this tract, about 1% of its area, sat in the redlined grade-D zone on 1930s HOLC maps, though its dominant grade was B ("Still Desirable"). That lending history still correlates with present-day rent burden.

In CDC survey modeling, about 10.5% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 7.6% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.

For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.

Frequently asked

About tract 19061000702

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 19061000702?

Census tract 19061000702 in the Cable Car Square neighborhood scores 3.5/10 (Lower tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 19061000702?

Median gross rent is $887/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 39% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 19061000702?

9.7% of residents in tract 19061000702 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,429.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 19061000702?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 58th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 69th, household 25th, minority 25th, housing 70th.
Q5

Is tract 19061000702 considered part of Cable Car Square?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 19061000702 fall within Cable Car Square (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 19061000702?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 62 eviction filings across 3 validated years in tract 19061000702 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.67% of renter households, peaking at 4.9% in 2005. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 19061000702 struggle to pay rent?

About 10.5% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 7.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 19061000702 compare to Dubuque overall?

Tract 19061000702 scores 3.5/10, higher than the parent city of Dubuque at 2.7/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Dubuque eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9

Was tract 19061000702 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 1% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Dubuque

Top eight tracts in Dubuque ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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