Wichita Eviction Risk: Moderate

Cost burden runs 27% here against 39.0% across Sedgwick County. Average gross rent is $722, 26% below the Wichita average. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2/10.

The poverty rate is 25%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Running cool, tenant-organizing strength reads 2/10. 13% 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. Food insecurity runs 25.0% against 17.8% nationally.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 14.4% 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.

That is riskier than roughly 58% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.7/10. Against average income of $58,343, annual rent is just 15%.

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 most pressured. 37% 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.