Western Gateway Eviction Risk: Moderate , Des Moines

The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. 32% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Polk County average of 42.0%. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10.

Running cool, state political climate reads 2.3/10. Severe burden reaches 13%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The poverty rate is 20%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Against the Polk County average of 3.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.0 points. Food insecurity runs 9.9% against 17.8% nationally.

SNAP participation runs 7.7% against 15.2% nationally. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. On the national scale it lands near the 58th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the IA average is 3.7, so this tract runs 1.1 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.