Wichita Eviction Risk: Moderate

Against Sedgwick County at 39.0%, 29% of renters here are cost-burdened. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10. Running cool, tenant-organizing strength 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. The poverty rate is 22%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. It sits 1.0 points above the Sedgwick County average of 3.8.

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 9.3/10, 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 housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

Average gross rent is $902, close to the Wichita average. Annual rent works out to 22% of average household income of $49,000. 52% 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.