Pioneer Park Eviction Risk: Lower , Des Moines

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.7/10. 19% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10. Court records carry 1,411 eviction filings across 10 observed years.

Against Polk County at 42.0%, 38% of renters here are cost-burdened. It sits 0.7 points below the Polk County average of 3.8.

At $980 a month, rents run 10% under what the rest of Des Moines commands. Filings peaked in 2007 at 26.1% of renter households. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 17.6% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 22% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 14% of average household income of $83,241, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

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.