Mead Neighborhood Eviction Risk: Moderate , Wichita

Cost burden runs 27% here against 39.0% across Sedgwick County. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10. Running cool, tenant-organizing strength reads 2/10.

The severe-burden share is 13%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The poverty rate is 20%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Against the Sedgwick County average of 3.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.0 points.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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. Nationally it ranks #35,669 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the KS average is 3.7, so this tract runs 1.1 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $960, close to the Wichita average.

Annual rent works out to 27% of average household income of $42,232. 45% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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