Beaverdale Eviction Risk: Lower , Des Moines
Tract 19153000703 · Polk County, IA · pop 2,806 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Census tract 19153000703 runs through Beaverdale in Des Moines. With 2,806 residents, it scores 4.8/10 for landlords. That is riskier than roughly 32% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 49% of renter households, a severe level, and 28% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,143 monthly, set against $76,904 in average yearly household income, roughly 18% of income at the averages. About 18% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Des Moines and the region
Centroid at 41.6226, -93.6668 · click any tract to drill in
Why Beaverdale scores 3.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Beaverdale compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 39
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 23%Socioeconomic
- 63%Household composition
- 35%Racial/ethnic minority
- 54%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: A: Best
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 57%Grade A
- 2%Grade B
- 36%Grade C
- 0%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)
- 138Total filings over 10 yrs
- 3.78%Avg annual filing rate
- 17.6%Peak (2011)
- 6Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Beaverdale. 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.
- 7.4%Housing insecurity
- 4.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 8.6%Food insecurity
- 6.5%SNAP enrollment
- 5.0%Transit barriers
- 5.8%No health insurance
- 14.9%Frequent mental distress
- 24.1%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Beaverdale
The heaviest input here is supply constraint at 4.4/10. 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 safer side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 7.4% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 4.6% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 39th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 19153000703
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