Altoona Eviction Risk: Lower

24% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10.

Running cool, state political climate reads 2.3/10. Food insecurity runs 8.7% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 6.6% against 15.2% nationally.

Against the Polk County average of 3.8, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.8 points. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 4.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 13% of average household income of $111,487, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 42% of renters.

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