Manville Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Iowa City

Against Johnson County at 49.2%, 83% of renters here are cost-burdened. Annualized rent equals 70% of average household income of $18,159, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10. The poverty rate is 71%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. 96% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.

Food insecurity runs 35.2% against 17.8% nationally. Running cool, state political climate reads 2.3/10.

It sits 1.3 points above the Johnson County average of 4.1. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 2.5/10.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 16.0% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the IA average is 3.7, so this tract runs 1.7 points hotter.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.