Watrous Heights Eviction Risk: Lower , Des Moines

Running cool, economic stress reads 1/10. 31% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly below the Polk County average of 42.0%.

Severe burden reaches 23%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Average gross rent is $1,381, 27% above the Des Moines average.

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10. Court records carry 528 eviction filings across 10 observed years. It sits 0.8 points below the Polk County average of 3.8.

The voucher gap is 13.6%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. The worst year on record was 2007, when 15.7% of renter households were served.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 11.4% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Only 13% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.

Social vulnerability reads 3.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.