Prairie Trail Eviction Risk: Lower , Ankeny

Against Polk County at 42.0%, roughly one in three of renters here are cost-burdened. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.9/10.

The voucher gap is 22.3%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. 11% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Food insecurity runs 9.6% against 17.8% nationally. Against the Polk County average of 3.8, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.8 points.

SNAP participation runs 7.7% against 15.2% nationally. Average gross rent is $1,487, 13% above the Ankeny average.

That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 2.8/10. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.

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

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.