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Neighborhood · Ranked #34,278 of 84,120 nationally

Valley View Eviction Risk: Moderate , Dubuque

Tract 19061000701 · Dubuque County, IA · pop 3,667 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi

Tract 19061000701 sits in the Valley View area of Dubuque eviction risk, IA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 4.9/10. Severe burden reaches 32%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
4.9
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 25% Stable renters 33% Owners 42%
Tract context
Occupied units1,215
Renter share57.4%
SVI overall0.36
Poverty rate13.1%
Median income$60,793

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#3 of 3 tracts In Valley View
Very Low
Within parent city
70 th percentile
Rank, 70th percentileLowHigh
#7 of 21 tracts In Dubuque
Elevated
Within county
77 th percentile
Rank, 77th percentileLowHigh
#7 of 27 tracts In Dubuque County
High
Within state
90 th percentile
Rank, 90th percentileLowHigh
#87 of 896 tracts In Iowa
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Dubuque and the region

Centroid at 42.5035, -90.6801 · click any tract to drill in

Why Valley View scores 4.9

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Dubuque
5.4
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.9
State political climate
Iowa legislature & governorship
2.3
Economic stress
13.1% poverty · this tract
3.3
Supply constraint
$1,098 rent vs county FMR
6.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Dubuque
5.7
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.1
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Dubuque
7.4
Housing court bias
Inherited from Dubuque
5.8

How Valley View compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Valley View risk score vs. parent city / county / state4.9This tracttract 0007014.0Dubuqueparent city4.0Countyavg tract in county3.7Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 36

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Eviction filings

Court-record eviction history

Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1

Historic baseline (2000–2018)

  • 51Total filings over 3 yrs
  • 3.84%Avg annual filing rate
  • 5.5%Peak (2005)
  • 18Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2004 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 19061000701
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Valley View. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress

Eviction-adjacent indicators

Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Valley View

The clearest offset is eviction-process difficulty at 2.1/10. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.3/10.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.4/10. Average gross rent is $1,098, 16% above the Dubuque average.

Against the Dubuque County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.9 points. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 51 filings here across 3 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2005 at 5.5% of renter households.

This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Dubuque. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 3.8% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #34,278 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Social vulnerability reads 4.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the IA average is 3.7, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 19061000701

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 19061000701?

Census tract 19061000701 in the Valley View neighborhood scores 4.9/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 19061000701?

Median gross rent is $1,098/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 43% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 19061000701?

13.1% of residents in tract 19061000701 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,667.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 19061000701?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 36th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 54th, household 2th, minority 35th, housing 78th.
Q5

Is tract 19061000701 considered part of Valley View?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 19061000701 fall within Valley View (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 19061000701?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 51 eviction filings across 3 validated years in tract 19061000701 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.84% of renter households, peaking at 5.5% in 2005. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 19061000701 struggle to pay rent?

About 12.7% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 8.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 19061000701 compare to Dubuque overall?

Tract 19061000701 scores 4.9/10, higher than the parent city of Dubuque at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Dubuque eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9

Was tract 19061000701 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 2% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Dubuque

Top eight tracts in Dubuque ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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