Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Westwood Eviction Risk: Lower , Des Moines
Tract 19153003100 · Polk County, IA · pop 1,844 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
With a score of 3/10, tract 19153003100 in the Westwood area of Des Moines, IA reads lower for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 1,844 residents. Cost burden runs 23% here against 42.0% across Polk County.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 8%
Stable renters 26%
Owners 66%
Tract context
Occupied units851
Renter share34.2%
SVI overall0.07
Poverty rate2.5%
Median income$97,431
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
2
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
32
th percentile
Low
Within state
34
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Des Moines and the region
Centroid at 41.5782, -93.6839 · click any tract to drill in
Why Westwood scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Des Moines
4.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.8
State political climate
Iowa legislature & governorship
2.3
Economic stress
2.5% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$1,089 rent vs county FMR
4.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Des Moines
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Des Moines
3.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Des Moines
2.5
How Westwood compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 7
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 17%Socioeconomic
- 12%Household composition
- 24%Racial/ethnic minority
- 9%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: A: Best
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 71%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 6%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Eviction filings
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)
- 22Total filings over 9 yrs
- 1.16%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.2%Peak (2006)
- 1Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 80% over the past 10 months.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 5.3%Housing insecurity
- 3.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 5.3%Food insecurity
- 3.9%SNAP enrollment
- 3.7%Transit barriers
- 3.6%No health insurance
- 13.3%Frequent mental distress
- 19.6%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Westwood
Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10.
Housing insecurity runs 5.3% against 14.2% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 22 evictions over 9 years of observation.
Against the Polk County average of 3.8, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.8 points. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.7% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.
Filings peaked in 2006 at 2.2% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground A ("Best"). 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. In a typical year about 1.2% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 1.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Against average income of $97,431, annual rent is just 13%.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 19153003100
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 19153003100?
Census tract 19153003100 in the Westwood neighborhood scores 3/10 (Lower tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 19153003100?
Median gross rent is $1,089/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 23% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 19153003100?
2.5% of residents in tract 19153003100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,844.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 19153003100?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 7th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 17th, household 12th, minority 24th, housing 9th.
Q5
Is tract 19153003100 considered part of Westwood?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 19153003100 fall within Westwood (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 19153003100?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 22 eviction filings across 9 validated years in tract 19153003100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.16% of renter households, peaking at 2.2% in 2006. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 19153003100 struggle to pay rent?
About 5.3% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 3.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 19153003100 compare to Des Moines overall?
Tract 19153003100 scores 3/10, lower than the parent city of Des Moines at 3.4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Des Moines eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 19153003100 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of A. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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