Iowa City Eviction Risk: Lower

Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1.8/10. The severe-burden share is 20%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.3/10.

SNAP participation runs 4.2% against 15.2% nationally. Against the Johnson County average of 4.1, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.1 points.

Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 2.5/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 2 filings here across 2 tracked years.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.7% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Filings peaked in 2004 at 0.6% of renter households.

In a typical year about 0.7% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

At 14% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.6/10.

Against average income of $104,485, annual rent is just 13%.

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