Valley High Manor Eviction Risk: Moderate , Pleasant Hill

34% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 8.2/10.

Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.2/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 2.3/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 649 filings here across 10 tracked years.

Filings peaked in 2009 at 53.7% of renter households. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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 20.8% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 47th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 5.5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Against average income of $82,371, annual rent is just 16%.

It tracks the Polk County average of 3.8 closely. Average gross rent is $1,129, close to the Pleasant Hill average.

28% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.