West Des Moines Eviction Risk: Moderate

28% 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 tenant-organizing strength at 8.5/10. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 2/10.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.3/10. Food insecurity runs 7.9% against 17.8% nationally. Court records carry 16 eviction filings across 3 observed years.

Housing insecurity runs 6.7% against 14.2% nationally. At $1,118 a month, rents run 10% under what the rest of West Des Moines commands. The worst year on record was 2014, when 3.7% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 1.8% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 46th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.8/10.

Against average income of $120,833, annual rent is just 11%. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most 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.