Wichita Eviction Risk: Moderate

The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Cost burden runs roughly one in two here against 39.0% across Sedgwick County. Running cool, state political climate reads 2/10.

The poverty rate is 25%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the softer side, tenant-organizing strength reads 2/10. 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 14.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Average gross rent is $1,070, 10% above the Wichita average. Nationally it ranks #35,669 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.1/10, 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 housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.