Union Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Des Moines

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10. 16% 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. The poverty rate is 19%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

It sits 1.0 points above the Polk County average of 3.8. Court records carry 176 eviction filings across 10 observed years. SNAP participation runs 22.7% against 15.2% nationally.

Food insecurity runs 24.8% against 17.8% nationally. At $1,196 a month, rents run 10% over what the rest of Des Moines commands.

Filings peaked in 2011 at 10.8% of renter households. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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.

In a typical year about 9.9% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 58% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Only 20% 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.

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.