Marshalltown Eviction Risk: Moderate

The severe-burden share is 18%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Against the Marshall County average of 3.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.3/10. Food insecurity runs 28.9% against 17.8% nationally. The poverty rate is 21%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

35% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Marshall County average of 29.1%. The filing record is not thin: 321 evictions over 12 years of observation.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.1/10. SNAP participation runs 23.1% against 15.2% nationally.

The worst year on record was 2015, when 4.9% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 3.7% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #31,049 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $60,426, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

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