Urbandale Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 19153010407 · Polk County, IA · pop 4,356
Census tract 19153010407 runs through Urbandale. With 4,356 residents, it scores 4.9/10 for landlords. It lands near the 35th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 31% of renter households, a high level, and 18% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,255 monthly, set against $138,194 in average yearly household income, roughly 11% of income at the averages. About 11% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Urbandale and the region
Centroid at 41.6406, -93.7462 · click any tract to drill in
Why Urbandale scores 1.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Urbandale compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 2
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 2%Socioeconomic
- 18%Household composition
- 18%Racial/ethnic minority
- 5%Housing & transportation
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)
- 45Total filings over 10 yrs
- 2.30%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.5%Peak (2013)
- 1Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 6.0%Housing insecurity
- 4.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 6.7%Food insecurity
- 5.0%SNAP enrollment
- 4.1%Transit barriers
- 4.2%No health insurance
- 13.8%Frequent mental distress
- 21.7%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Urbandale
The heaviest input here is supply constraint at 5.3/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Urbandale eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Polk County average of 5.0 and above the Iowa statewide average of 4.3. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 45 eviction filings here over 10 tracked years, with about 2.3% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 4.5% of renter households in 2013.
In CDC survey modeling, about 6.0% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 4.0% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 19153010407
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Highest-risk tracts in Urbandale
Top eight tracts in Urbandale ranked by composite eviction-risk score.