Buffalo Mesa Eviction Risk: Lower , Commerce City

Average gross rent is $2,469, 31% above the Commerce City average. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.3/10. Against the Adams County average of 4.5, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.3 points.

The voucher gap is 15.4%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 20 filings here across 3 tracked years.

Severe burden reaches 9%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 3.1/10.

Filings peaked in 2006 at 12.3% of renter households. In a typical year about 7.3% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 25th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Only 12% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. Social vulnerability reads 1.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the CO average is 4.9, so this tract runs 1.7 points cooler.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. roughly one in two of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.