Pleasant Hill Eviction Risk: Lower

The clearest offset is economic stress at 1.3/10. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.2/10.

The filing record is not thin: 31 evictions over 10 years of observation. Against the Polk County average of 3.8, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.8 points.

At $1,382 a month, rents run 14% over what the rest of Pleasant Hill commands. The voucher gap is 13.7%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Food insecurity runs 10.8% against 17.8% nationally. Filings peaked in 2009 at 1.5% of renter households. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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 1.1% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

At 16% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

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.