Kirkwood Glen Eviction Risk: Moderate , Des Moines

The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. 54% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Polk County average of 42.0%. The poverty rate is 35%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

On the high side, economic stress reads 8.7/10. This is renter territory: 74% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10.

It sits 1.0 points above the Polk County average of 3.8. Court records carry 773 eviction filings across 10 observed years. Housing insecurity runs 22.5% against 14.2% nationally.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 16.4% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Filings peaked in 2008 at 19.9% of renter households.

This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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 10.6% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #35,669 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

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