Wichita Eviction Risk: Moderate

Severe burden reaches 23%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2/10.

Running cool, 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.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 18.7% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. It sits 1.0 points above the Sedgwick County average of 3.8.

Housing insecurity runs 23.4% against 14.2% nationally. At $817 a month, rents run 16% under what the rest of Wichita commands. This ground was mapped A ("Best") 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.

On the national scale it lands near the 58th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.2/10.

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

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.