Ames Eviction Risk: Elevated

The severe-burden share is 27%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. 66% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Running cool, court filing pressure reads 1.9/10.

It sits 1.6 points above the Story County average of 4.4. Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 8/10.

The poverty rate is 22%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Average gross rent is $1,129, 10% above the Ames average.

Nationally it ranks #18,163 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the IA average is 3.7, so this tract runs 2.3 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 42% of renters. Annual rent works out to 22% of average household income of $62,132.

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.