Brook Run Eviction Risk: Lower , Des Moines

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.5/10. 33% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Polk County average of 42.0%. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10.

At $1,258 a month, rents run 15% over what the rest of Des Moines commands. It sits 0.8 points below the Polk County average of 3.8. Food insecurity runs 10.7% against 17.8% nationally.

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. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Only 23% 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. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 18% of average household income of $84,942, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.

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