Grays Lake Eviction Risk: Lower , Des Moines

Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. 20% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10.

Running cool, economic stress reads 2/10. The filing record is not thin: 178 evictions over 10 years of observation. Food insecurity runs 10.8% against 17.8% nationally.

At $978 a month, rents run 10% under what the rest of Des Moines commands. The worst year on record was 2010, when 13.6% of renter households were served.

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 6.4% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 27th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

At 12% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Social vulnerability reads 3.5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 14% of average household income of $81,438, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

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.