Fairmont Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Des Moines
Tract 19153000202 · Polk County, IA · pop 2,798 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
With a score of 5.2/10, tract 19153000202 in Fairmont Park in Des Moines ranks in the Moderate tier for landlord eviction risk. The tract is home to 2,798 residents. That is riskier than about 46% of US census tracts.
About 53% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 23% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,285 monthly, set against $59,625 in average yearly household income, roughly 26% of income at the averages. Renters make up 31% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Des Moines and the region
Centroid at 41.6145, -93.5701 · click any tract to drill in
Why Fairmont Park scores 4.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Fairmont Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 46
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 17%Socioeconomic
- 88%Household composition
- 43%Racial/ethnic minority
- 54%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 4%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 67%Grade C
- 29%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 155Total filings over 10 yrs
- 6.44%Avg annual filing rate
- 13.3%Peak (2007)
- 17Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Fairmont Park. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 11.6%Housing insecurity
- 7.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 14.7%Food insecurity
- 11.7%SNAP enrollment
- 7.6%Transit barriers
- 10.0%No health insurance
- 17.2%Frequent mental distress
- 31.7%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Fairmont Park
What moves this score most is supply constraint at 5.6/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Des Moines eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Polk County average of 5.0 and above the Iowa statewide average of 4.3. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
Part of this tract, about 29% of its area, sat in the redlined grade-D zone on 1930s HOLC maps, though its dominant grade was C ("Declining"). That lending history still correlates with present-day rent burden.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 46th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 19153000202
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