Ankeny Eviction Risk: Moderate

The main counterweight is supply constraint at 1.6/10. Against Polk County at 42.0%, 32% of renters here are cost-burdened. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10.

Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.9/10. It sits 0.8 points above the Polk County average of 3.8. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Des Moines. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

Nationally it ranks #39,308 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Only 15% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $58,043, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the IA average is 3.7, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

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.