Marshalltown Eviction Risk: Lower

Cost burden runs 40% here against 29.1% across Marshall County. The severe-burden share is 16%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.2/10.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.3/10. The filing record is not thin: 165 evictions over 12 years of observation. Against the Marshall County average of 3.7, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.6 points.

The worst year on record was 2015, when 7.1% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 3.2% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 22nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 15% of average household income of $74,450, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. Average gross rent is $907, close to the Marshalltown 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.