West Des Moines Eviction Risk: Lower

The clearest offset is economic stress at 1/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10.

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10. The severe-burden share is 11%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Food insecurity runs 8.8% against 17.8% nationally.

Court records carry 78 eviction filings across 10 observed years. SNAP participation runs 6.9% against 15.2% nationally. The worst year on record was 2013, when 3.4% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 2.3% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 29% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. At 22% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Against average income of $81,781, annual rent is just 17%.

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.