Waveland Park Eviction Risk: Lower

Well under the midpoint is economic stress, at 1.8/10. 19% 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.

Against a Des Moines baseline of 29.6%, 36% of renters here cross the 30%-of-income line. Court records carry 194 eviction filings across its 2 observed tracts.

On the softer side is eviction-process difficulty, at 2.5/10. CDC survey data puts housing insecurity at 7.1% of adults, against 14.2% nationally.

Filing activity peaked in 2007 at 16.3% of renter households. 5.0% of adults carry no health insurance against 11.3% nationally, a common route into sudden unpayable debt. The most recent observed rate, 2.6% in 2015, is well off that peak.

Among the 44 mapped neighborhoods of Des Moines, it ranks #38 by risk, the lower third. Only 22% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin here; price renewals off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.

The closest comparables inside the same city are Grays Lake and Lower Beaver.

The area figure travels well to individual addresses here, though the per-tract table below still carries the detail. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.