Cedar Rapids Eviction Risk: Moderate

Average gross rent is $669, 31% below the Cedar Rapids average. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.7/10.

Against Linn County at 41.7%, 32% of renters here are cost-burdened. Running cool, state political climate reads 2.3/10. Severe burden reaches 12%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Food insecurity runs 26.8% against 17.8% nationally. It sits 0.9 points above the Linn County average of 3.7. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 14.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Nationally it ranks #39,308 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Against average income of $49,021, annual rent is just 16%.

Statewide the IA average is 3.7, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

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