Prairie Trail Eviction Risk: Lower

Well under the midpoint is eviction-process difficulty, at 1.9/10. The voucher gap is 19.8%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which shows up as churn rather than arrears.

32% of renters here are cost-burdened at the 30% threshold, above the Ankeny rate of 26.4%. Severe burden reaches 13%. A tenant at that level absorbs no shock: one cut shift or one repair bill converts directly into arrears.

Court records for this tract carry 169 eviction filings. SNAP participation is 6.7% of households versus 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity affects 8.8% of adults, 9.0 points below the national rate.

The worst year on record was 2015, when filings touched 4.8% of renter households. Running hot is supply constraint at 7/10.

At $1,457 a month, rents sit 10% over what the rest of Ankeny commands. Judgments average 0.9% of renter households a year, the share of filings that actually convert to an order. Against average income of $103,165, annual rent is only 17%, a wide affordability cushion.

Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually reflect a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

With little internal variation, 3/10 is a fair proxy for any address inside the boundary. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.