Highland Eviction Risk: Moderate , Denver

What pushes it up most is local political climate at 9/10. At $2,398 a month, rents run 31% over what the rest of Denver commands. Running hot, eviction-process difficulty reads 8.5/10.

68% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Disability prevalence runs 16.2% against 31.5% nationally.

Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 8.1/10. The severe-burden share is 15%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. It sits 1.1 points below the Denver County average of 6.7.

The voucher gap is 12.1%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. That is riskier than roughly 73% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Social vulnerability reads 2.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least 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.