Wichita Eviction Risk: Moderate

The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. The poverty rate is 33%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Running hot, economic stress reads 8.3/10.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 2/10. 15% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Against the Sedgwick County average of 3.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.0 points. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.1/10, 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 least pressured. 40% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent. Average gross rent is $990, close to the Wichita average.

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.