Fairmont Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Des Moines

The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10. 14% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.3/10. Average gross rent is $914, 16% below the Des Moines average. The filing record is not thin: 460 evictions over 10 years of observation.

Against the Polk County average of 3.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.8 points. The worst year on record was 2007, when 31.1% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Des Moines. 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 13.9% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 53rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $65,987, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the IA average is 3.7, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter.

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.