Fort Des Moines Eviction Risk: Moderate

Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10. 17% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.3/10.

At $896 a month, rents run 18% under what the rest of Des Moines commands. Cost burden runs 37% here against 42.0% across Polk County. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 2,017 filings here across 10 tracked years.

Against the Polk County average of 3.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.7 points. The worst year on record was 2007, when 22.8% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 18.0% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 51st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.