Council Bluffs Eviction Risk: Moderate

The main counterweight is eviction-process difficulty at 1.9/10. Against the Pottawattamie County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points. Running cool, state political climate reads 2.3/10.

44% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Pottawattamie County average of 38.2%. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 2.4/10. The poverty rate is 19%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 175 filings here across 4 tracked years. At $932 a month, rents run 10% under what the rest of Council Bluffs commands.

The worst year on record was 2013, when 7.1% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Council Bluffs. 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 6.5% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.9/10.

Statewide the IA average is 3.7, so this tract runs 1.7 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

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