Downtown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Fargo

50% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Cass County average of 36.2%. The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.5/10. 18% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

The poverty rate is 23%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Average gross rent is $747, 21% below the Fargo average.

Against the Cass County average of 3.5, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. That is riskier than roughly 53% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Social vulnerability reads 5.5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the ND average is 3.5, so this tract runs 1.1 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

Annual rent works out to 30% of average household income of $29,451.

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.