Union Drive Eviction Risk: Elevated , Ames

67% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well clear of the Story County average of 40.1%. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10.

The poverty rate is 46%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.5/10.

This is renter territory: 82% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Annualized rent equals 38% of average household income of $31,929, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. It sits 2.0 points above the Story County average of 4.4.

On the softer side, court filing pressure reads 1.9/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 137 filings here across 9 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2006, when 1.7% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 1.3% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #16,032 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.2/10. Statewide the IA average is 3.7, so this tract runs 2.7 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least 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.