West Des Moines Eviction Risk: Moderate

The severe-burden share is 30%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 8.5/10.

Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 2/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.3/10. SNAP participation runs 7.2% against 15.2% nationally.

Food insecurity runs 9.9% against 17.8% nationally. On the national scale it lands near the 53rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 1.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 15% of average household income of $96,333, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the IA average is 3.7, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. It tracks the Dallas County average of 4.0 closely.

Average gross rent is $1,240, close to the West Des Moines average. 41% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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