Westwood Eviction Risk: High , Denver

31% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The score leans hardest on local political climate at 9/10. Set annual rent against average income of $44,873 and the ratio lands at 41%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

Sitting well above the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 8.5/10. This is renter territory: 69% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. The poverty rate is 30%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Against the Denver County average of 6.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points. Cost burden runs 53% here against 45.4% across Denver County. Running hot, regional political climate reads 8.1/10.

The filing record is not thin: 323 evictions over 8 years of observation. Average gross rent is $1,551, 15% below the Denver average.

The worst year on record was 2010, when 10.6% of renter households were served.

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.