Council Bluffs Eviction Risk: Moderate

The severe-burden share is 20%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.9/10.

At $823 a month, rents run 20% under what the rest of Council Bluffs commands. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.3/10.

The filing record is not thin: 137 evictions over 4 years of observation. 43% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Pottawattamie County average of 38.2%. The worst year on record was 2013, when 9.1% of renter households were served.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 8.0% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #41,206 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6/10.

Against average income of $67,851, annual rent is just 15%. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

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.