River Bend Eviction Risk: Moderate

Against a Des Moines baseline of 29.6%, roughly two in three of renters here cross the 30%-of-income line. Food insecurity affects 45.1% of adults, 27.3 points above the national rate. Pulling the other way is rent-regulation exposure, at 1/10.

Average gross rent is $745, 32% below the Des Moines average of $1,090. On the softer side is supply constraint, at 1.1/10. The poverty rate is 27%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest.

Disability prevalence reaches 45.3% against a 31.5% national average, which raises the odds a reasonable-accommodation request accompanies any dispute. Court records for this tract carry 410 eviction filings.

Well under the midpoint is eviction-process difficulty, at 2.5/10. Filing activity peaked in 2012 at 8.9% of renter households.

The most recent observed rate, 4.5% in 2015, is well off that peak. Among the 44 mapped neighborhoods of Des Moines, it ranks #1 by risk, the upper third.

The closest comparables inside the same city are Capitol East and Drake Park. Social vulnerability runs high at 9.9/10, concentrating the disaster- and displacement-exposure this model treats as a lagging risk input.

Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $38,464.

Because the boundary contains one tract, 4.8/10 is simultaneously the area figure and the address-level figure. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.