West Des Moines Eviction Risk: Moderate

The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 8.5/10. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 2/10.

41% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Dallas County average of 33.1%. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.3/10.

The voucher gap is 17.0%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. At $1,423 a month, rents run 15% over what the rest of West Des Moines commands. Food insecurity runs 10.1% against 17.8% nationally.

That is riskier than roughly 46% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 14% of average household income of $122,974, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.