Waveland Park Eviction Risk: Lower , Des Moines

At $1,447 a month, rents run 33% over what the rest of Des Moines commands. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10. Cost burden runs 34% here against 42.0% across Polk County.

15% 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 softer side, state political climate reads 2.3/10. The voucher gap is 19.0%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Food insecurity runs 7.7% against 17.8% nationally. Court records carry 110 eviction filings across 10 observed years.

Housing insecurity runs 6.9% against 14.2% nationally. Filings peaked in 2007 at 16.3% of renter households. 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.

In a typical year about 5.9% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #54,273 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

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.