Watrous Heights Eviction Risk: Lower

Well under the midpoint is economic stress, at 1/10. 23% are severely burdened, paying half their income or more in rent. That cohort has no absorption capacity for an unexpected bill, and it is where non-payment filings originate.

Average gross rent is $1,381, 27% above the Des Moines average of $1,090. 31% of renters spend 30% or more of household income on rent.

Court records for this tract carry 528 eviction filings. On the softer side is eviction-process difficulty, at 2.5/10.

The voucher gap is 13.6%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which shows up as churn rather than arrears. The worst year on record was 2007, when filings touched 15.7% of renter households.

Recent filings have not receded much: 11.8% in 2015 against a 15.7% peak. Among the 44 mapped neighborhoods of Des Moines, it ranks #38 by risk, the lower third.

At 13% renter-occupied, this is predominantly owner territory, and rental comps have to be drawn from further out. The closest comparables inside the same city are Beaverdale and Easter Lake Area.

Because the boundary contains one tract, 3/10 is simultaneously the area figure and the address-level figure. The number is rebuilt whenever its ACS, court-record, or statutory inputs change.