Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #35,669 of 84,120 nationally
Martin Luther King Jr. Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Des Moines
Tract 19153001700 · Polk County, IA · pop 2,486 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
With a score of 4.8/10, tract 19153001700 in the Martin Luther King Jr. Park area of Des Moines, IA reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.
Risk score
4.8
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 13%
Stable renters 16%
Owners 71%
Tract context
Occupied units782
Renter share28.9%
SVI overall0.93
Poverty rate19.7%
Median income$44,922
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
64
th percentile
Elevated
Within county
95
th percentile
Very High
Within state
90
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Des Moines and the region
Centroid at 41.6029, -93.5926 · click any tract to drill in
Why Martin Luther King Jr. Park scores 4.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Des Moines
4.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.8
State political climate
Iowa legislature & governorship
2.3
Economic stress
19.7% poverty · this tract
4.9
Supply constraint
$893 rent vs county FMR
2.3
Rent control risk
Inherited from Des Moines
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Des Moines
3.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Des Moines
2.5
How Martin Luther King Jr. Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 93
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 87%Socioeconomic
- 96%Household composition
- 84%Racial/ethnic minority
- 77%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 1%Grade B
- 1%Grade C
- 98%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Eviction filings
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 312Total filings over 10 yrs
- 11.73%Avg annual filing rate
- 23.7%Peak (2008)
- 43Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 54% over the past 10 months.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 22.9%Housing insecurity
- 14.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 31.1%Food insecurity
- 26.3%SNAP enrollment
- 14.5%Transit barriers
- 17.8%No health insurance
- 19.4%Frequent mental distress
- 36.8%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Martin Luther King Jr. Park
Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10. The severe-burden share is 17%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Food insecurity runs 31.1% against 17.8% nationally. Running cool, state political climate reads 2.3/10. At $893 a month, rents run 18% under what the rest of Des Moines commands.
The poverty rate is 20%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Against the Polk County average of 3.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.0 points. Housing insecurity runs 22.9% against 14.2% nationally.
Court records carry 312 eviction filings across 10 observed years. The worst year on record was 2008, when 23.7% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.
In a typical year about 11.7% of renter households face a filing.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 19153001700
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 19153001700?
Census tract 19153001700 in the Martin Luther King Jr. Park neighborhood scores 4.8/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 19153001700?
Median gross rent is $893/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 46% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 19153001700?
19.7% of residents in tract 19153001700 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,486.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 19153001700?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 93th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 87th, household 96th, minority 84th, housing 77th.
Q5
Is tract 19153001700 considered part of Martin Luther King Jr. Park?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 19153001700 fall within Martin Luther King Jr. Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 19153001700?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 312 eviction filings across 10 validated years in tract 19153001700 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 11.73% of renter households, peaking at 23.7% in 2008. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 19153001700 struggle to pay rent?
About 22.9% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 14.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 19153001700 compare to Des Moines overall?
Tract 19153001700 scores 4.8/10, higher than the parent city of Des Moines at 3.4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Des Moines eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 19153001700 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 98% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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