Pioneer Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Des Moines
Tract 19153003901 · Polk County, IA · pop 3,927 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
Eviction risk in Pioneer Park in Des Moines centers on tract 19153003901, which scores 5.2/10 (Moderate tier) and is home to 3,927 residents. That is riskier than about 46% of US census tracts.
About 58% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 18% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,010 a month against an average household income of $49,225 a year, roughly 25% of income at the averages. Renters make up 59% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Des Moines and the region
Centroid at 41.5621, -93.5878 · click any tract to drill in
Why Pioneer Park scores 4.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Pioneer Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 94
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 93%Socioeconomic
- 90%Household composition
- 80%Racial/ethnic minority
- 83%Housing & transportation
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
- 0%Grade C
- 95%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)
- 1,040Total filings over 10 yrs
- 14.14%Avg annual filing rate
- 19.6%Peak (2014)
- 110Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Pioneer Park. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 23.9%Housing insecurity
- 16.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 32.7%Food insecurity
- 30.0%SNAP enrollment
- 15.8%Transit barriers
- 17.8%No health insurance
- 21.7%Frequent mental distress
- 37.0%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Pioneer Park
What moves this score most is economic stress at $1/10. 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 about the same as 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 23.9% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 16.3% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is White and Asian and ranks around the 94th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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