West Des Moines Eviction Risk: Moderate

Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 2/10.

Food insecurity runs 6.4% against 17.8% nationally. The severe-burden share is 10%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Housing insecurity runs 6.1% against 14.2% nationally.

The voucher gap is 13.7%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Average gross rent is $1,382, 12% above the West Des Moines average.

On the national scale it lands near the 53rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 2.1/10. Statewide the IA average is 3.7, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 6%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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