West Colfax Eviction Risk: Elevated , Denver

What pushes it up most is local political climate at 9/10. 57% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Denver County average of 45.4%. Sitting well above the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 8.5/10.

On the high side, regional political climate reads 8.1/10. The poverty rate is 23%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

At $1,667 a month, rents run 9% under what the rest of Denver commands. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 85% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 14% of average household income of $145,227, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Statewide the CO average is 4.9, so this tract runs 2.1 points hotter.

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