Walden Hills Eviction Risk: Moderate , Iowa City
Tract 19103000401 · Johnson County, IA · pop 3,118 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
Landlord eviction risk in census tract 19103000401 (Walden Hills in Iowa City, Iowa) comes in at 5.5/10, the Moderate tier. It lands near the 57th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
63% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 43% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $1,117 a month while the average household earns $48,854 a year, roughly 27% of income at the averages. About 52% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Iowa City and the region
Centroid at 41.6511, -91.5798 · click any tract to drill in
Why Walden Hills scores 5.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Walden Hills compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 79
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 69%Socioeconomic
- 91%Household composition
- 73%Racial/ethnic minority
- 60%Housing & transportation
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Walden Hills. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 16.6%Housing insecurity
- 13.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 22.4%Food insecurity
- 22.4%SNAP enrollment
- 12.5%Transit barriers
- 8.4%No health insurance
- 18.0%Frequent mental distress
- 29.4%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Walden Hills
The score leans hardest on economic stress at $1/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Iowa City eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Johnson County average of 4.7 and above the Iowa statewide average of 4.3. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 16.6% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 13.4% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is White and Black and ranks around the 79th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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