Drake Eviction Risk: Moderate , Des Moines

20% 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 high side, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.3/10. The filing record is not thin: 474 evictions over 10 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2015, when 9.6% of renter households were served.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground A ("Best"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. At $1,002 a month, rents run 8% under what the rest of Des Moines commands. In a typical year about 6.3% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 46% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. 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 17% of average household income of $70,130, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.