Merle Hay Eviction Risk: Lower , Des Moines

17% 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.

Cost burden runs 35% here against 42.0% across Polk County. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2.5/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 130 filings here across 10 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2015, when 4.7% 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 3.2% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #57,812 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Social vulnerability reads 6.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $82,522, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

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

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.