Wichita Eviction Risk: Moderate

Food insecurity runs 44.1% against 17.8% nationally. The poverty rate is 49%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 29.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

The severe-burden share is 27%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. 50% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Sedgwick County average of 39.0%.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 2/10. Against the Sedgwick County average of 3.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.0 points. 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.

That is riskier than roughly 58% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 9.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the KS average is 3.7, so this tract runs 1.1 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing 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.