Drake Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Des Moines
Tract 19153002600 · Polk County, IA · pop 2,343 · neighborhood within 0.0 mi
Tract 19153002600, home to 2,343 residents in the Drake Park neighborhood of Des Moines, scores 5.7/10 for landlord eviction risk. It lands near the 65th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 57% of renter households, a severe level, and 34% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $880 a month against an average household income of $43,778 a year, roughly 24% of income at the averages. Renters make up 75% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
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Why Drake Park scores 5.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Drake Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 81
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 88%Socioeconomic
- 53%Household composition
- 64%Racial/ethnic minority
- 73%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 74%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 20%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)
- 716Total filings over 10 yrs
- 10.89%Avg annual filing rate
- 19.4%Peak (2007)
- 55Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 21.8%Housing insecurity
- 15.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 29.1%Food insecurity
- 28.1%SNAP enrollment
- 15.4%Transit barriers
- 12.5%No health insurance
- 22.5%Frequent mental distress
- 33.7%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Drake Park
The heaviest input here is economic stress at 8.9/10. 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 above 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.
In CDC survey modeling, about 21.8% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 15.9% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
Part of this tract, about 20% of its area, sat in the redlined grade-D zone on 1930s HOLC maps, though its dominant grade was B ("Still Desirable"). That lending history still correlates with present-day rent burden.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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