West Side Eviction Risk: Moderate

Severe burden reaches 38%. A tenant at that level absorbs no shock: one cut shift or one repair bill converts directly into arrears. Pulling the other way is economic stress, at 1.7/10. On the softer side is supply constraint, at 1.8/10.

Filings are well documented here: 191 across 2 observed tracts. The worst year on record was 2009, when filings touched 10.0% of renter households. At $1,147 a month, rents sit 11% under what the rest of West St. Paul commands.

The most recent observed rate, 5.0% in 2013, is well off that peak. At 25% renter-occupied, this is predominantly owner territory, and rental comps have to be drawn from further out. Rent takes 16% of average household income, comfortably inside the 30% line and unusually low for a rental sub-market.

Poverty sits at 7%, low enough that arrears here usually reflect a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. The 2 tracts here are tightly clustered, 0.2 points apart at the extremes.

The area figure travels well to individual addresses here, though the per-tract table below still carries the detail. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.