Iowa City Eviction Risk: Moderate

Pulling hardest the other way is state political climate at 2.3/10. Against the Johnson County average of 4.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 2.5/10.

The poverty rate is 22%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Running cool, court filing pressure reads 2.7/10.

The filing record is not thin: 270 evictions over 3 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2005, when 15.6% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 11.3% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #24,859 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.7/10, 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.

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

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