Mead Neighborhood Eviction Risk: Moderate , Wichita

Severe burden reaches 33%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10. On the softer side, tenant-organizing strength reads 2/10. The poverty rate is 23%. 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. Food insecurity runs 26.8% against 17.8% nationally.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Average gross rent is $883, 9% below the Wichita average. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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 8.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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