Waite Park Eviction Risk: Elevated , Columbia Heights

31% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The dominant input is rent-regulation exposure at 9/10.

It sits 2.3 points above the Anoka County average of 4.2. On the high side, housing-court posture reads 7.8/10.

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2.2/10. The poverty rate is 22%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 105 filings here across 4 tracked years.

Filings peaked in 2012 at 4.5% of renter households. In a typical year about 4.7% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 82nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.2/10. Statewide the MN average is 4.5, so this tract runs 2.0 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

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.