Dubuque Eviction Risk: Moderate

Pulling hardest the other way is eviction-process difficulty at 2.1/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 2.3/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.4/10.

It sits 1.0 points above the Dubuque County average of 4.0. The filing record is not thin: 27 evictions over 3 years of observation. At $1,087 a month, rents run 15% over what the rest of Dubuque commands.

Filings peaked in 2015 at 2.7% of renter households. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Dubuque. 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 1.9% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 61st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 8.5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the IA average is 3.7, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

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.