Mead Neighborhood Eviction Risk: Moderate , Wichita

The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. The poverty rate is 35%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 8.8/10.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 2/10. 12% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Food insecurity runs 27.9% against 17.8% nationally. It sits 1.0 points above the Sedgwick County average of 3.8.

Housing insecurity runs 21.6% against 14.2% nationally. At $855 a month, rents run 12% under what the rest of Wichita commands. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Wichita. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

Nationally it ranks #35,669 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 7.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the KS average is 3.7, so this tract runs 1.1 points hotter.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.