Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #50,654 of 84,120 nationally
Accent Eviction Risk: Lower , Des Moines
Tract 19153001800 · Polk County, IA · pop 2,175 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
19153001800 is a census tract in the Accent area of Des Moines, IA. It scores 3.9/10 for landlords. Population here is 2,175. Against Polk County at 42.0%, 23% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Risk score
3.9
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 5%
Stable renters 17%
Owners 78%
Tract context
Occupied units794
Renter share22.2%
SVI overall0.36
Poverty rate11.1%
Median income$70,142
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
36
th percentile
Low
Within county
57
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
64
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Des Moines and the region
Centroid at 41.6040, -93.5685 · click any tract to drill in
Why Accent scores 3.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Des Moines
4.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.8
State political climate
Iowa legislature & governorship
2.3
Economic stress
11.1% poverty · this tract
2.8
Supply constraint
$1,231 rent vs county FMR
5.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from Des Moines
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Des Moines
3.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Des Moines
2.5
How Accent compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 36
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 59%Socioeconomic
- 71%Household composition
- 41%Racial/ethnic minority
- 5%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 12%Grade C
- 88%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.
Eviction filings
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)
- 199Total filings over 10 yrs
- 9.21%Avg annual filing rate
- 20.6%Peak (2015)
- 43Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 207% over the past 10 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Accent. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 13.5%Housing insecurity
- 8.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 16.8%Food insecurity
- 13.4%SNAP enrollment
- 8.5%Transit barriers
- 10.5%No health insurance
- 18.8%Frequent mental distress
- 29.8%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Accent
The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.3/10.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 199 filings here across 10 tracked years. The severe-burden share is 9%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
At $1,231 a month, rents run 13% over what the rest of Des Moines commands. Filings peaked in 2015 at 20.6% of renter households. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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 9.2% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 40% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. At 22% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.
Social vulnerability reads 4.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
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.
Frequently asked
About tract 19153001800
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 19153001800?
Census tract 19153001800 in the Accent neighborhood scores 3.9/10 (Lower tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 19153001800?
Median gross rent is $1,231/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 23% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 19153001800?
11.1% of residents in tract 19153001800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,175.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 19153001800?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 36th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 59th, household 71th, minority 41th, housing 5th.
Q5
Is tract 19153001800 considered part of Accent?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 19153001800 fall within Accent (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 19153001800?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 199 eviction filings across 10 validated years in tract 19153001800 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 9.21% of renter households, peaking at 20.6% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 19153001800 struggle to pay rent?
About 13.5% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 8.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 19153001800 compare to Des Moines overall?
Tract 19153001800 scores 3.9/10, higher than the parent city of Des Moines at 3.4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Des Moines eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 19153001800 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 88% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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