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East Omaha Eviction Risk: Lower , Council Bluffs

Tract 19155030300 · Pottawattamie County, IA · pop 3,463 · neighborhood within 1.4 mi

Tract 19155030300 covers the East Omaha neighborhood of Council Bluffs in Iowa. Home to 3,463 residents, it scores 4.8/10 on landlord eviction risk. That is riskier than about 32% of US census tracts.

31% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a high level, and 8% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,122 monthly, set against $67,596 in average yearly household income, roughly 20% of income at the averages. About 11% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

Risk score
3.5
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 3% Stable renters 7% Owners 90%
Tract context
Occupied units1,454
Renter share10.7%
SVI overall0.44
Poverty rate10.2%
Median income$67,596

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 3 tracts In East Omaha
Moderate
Within parent city
52 th percentile
Rank, 52nd percentileLowHigh
#11 of 22 tracts In Council Bluffs
Moderate
Within county
62 th percentile
Rank, 62nd percentileLowHigh
#12 of 30 tracts In Pottawattamie County
Elevated
Within state
62 th percentile
Rank, 62nd percentileLowHigh
#340 of 896 tracts In Iowa
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Council Bluffs and the region

Centroid at 41.2718, -95.8800 · click any tract to drill in

Why East Omaha scores 3.5

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Council Bluffs
3.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.2
State political climate
Iowa legislature & governorship
2.3
Economic stress
10.2% poverty · this tract
2.6
Supply constraint
$1,122 rent vs county FMR
3.9
Rent control risk
Inherited from Council Bluffs
5.4
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.9
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Council Bluffs
7.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Council Bluffs
5.8

How East Omaha compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
East Omaha risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 3.53.5This tracttract 030300Council Bluffs: 2.62.6Council Bluffsparent cityCounty: 3.33.3Countyavg tract in countyState: 3.33.3Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 44

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

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)

  • 37Total filings over 4 yrs
  • 3.24%Avg annual filing rate
  • 5.2%Peak (2013)
  • 11Filings in 2014 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2011 to 2014
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 191550303002011: 5 filings (1.75/100 renter HHs)2012: 6 filings (2.10/100 renter HHs)2013: 15 filings (5.24/100 renter HHs)2014: 11 filings (3.85/100 renter HHs)
Filings climbed 120% over the past 4 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within East Omaha. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in East Omaha

The heaviest input here is tenant organizing strength at 7.5/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Council Bluffs eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.

Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Pottawattamie County average of 4.9 and above the Iowa statewide average of 4.3. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.

In CDC survey modeling, about 11.3% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 7.9% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.

The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 44th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.

For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.

Frequently asked

About tract 19155030300

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 19155030300?

Census tract 19155030300 in the East Omaha neighborhood scores 3.5/10 (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 19155030300?

Median gross rent is $1,122/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 31% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 19155030300?

10.2% of residents in tract 19155030300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,463.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 19155030300?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 44th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 46th, household 75th, minority 34th, housing 24th.
Q5

Is tract 19155030300 considered part of East Omaha?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 19155030300 fall within East Omaha (neighborhood centroid within 1.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 19155030300?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 37 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 19155030300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.24% of renter households, peaking at 5.2% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 19155030300 struggle to pay rent?

About 11.3% 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. 7.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 19155030300 compare to Council Bluffs overall?

Tract 19155030300 scores 3.5/10, higher than the parent city of Council Bluffs at 2.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Council Bluffs eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9

Was tract 19155030300 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 96% 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.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Council Bluffs

Top eight tracts in Council Bluffs ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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