West Des Moines Eviction Risk: Moderate

Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10.

Disability prevalence runs 18.9% against 31.5% nationally. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 2/10.

SNAP participation runs 5.1% against 15.2% nationally. On the national scale it lands near the 47th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Against average income of $84,455, annual rent is just 17%. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 1%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

It tracks the Dallas County average of 4.0 closely.

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