Cable Car Square Eviction Risk: Moderate , Dubuque
Tract 19061000702 · Dubuque County, IA · pop 3,429 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
With a score of 4.8/10, tract 19061000702 in the Cable Car Square area of Dubuque, IA reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,429 residents. 27% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Dubuque and the region
Centroid at 42.4952, -90.6769 · click any tract to drill in
Why Cable Car Square scores 4.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Cable Car Square compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 58
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 69%Socioeconomic
- 25%Household composition
- 25%Racial/ethnic minority
- 70%Housing & transportation
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.
- 46%Grade A
- 52%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 1%Grade D · redlined
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.
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)
- 62Total filings over 3 yrs
- 3.67%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.9%Peak (2005)
- 17Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 10.5%Housing insecurity
- 7.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 13.9%Food insecurity
- 12.2%SNAP enrollment
- 8.1%Transit barriers
- 7.4%No health insurance
- 17.7%Frequent mental distress
- 27.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Cable Car Square
The main counterweight is eviction-process difficulty at 2.1/10. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.3/10.
Running cool, economic stress reads 2.4/10. Court records carry 62 eviction filings across 3 observed years.
Against the Dubuque County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.8 points. Filings peaked in 2005 at 4.9% 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 3.7% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 58th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the IA average is 3.7, so this tract runs 1.1 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
Rent takes 30% or more of income for 39% of renters. Average gross rent is $887, close to the Dubuque average.
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.
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