West Des Moines Eviction Risk: Moderate

72% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Severe burden reaches 21%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

roughly one in three of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Polk County average of 42.0%. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.2/10.

Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,212 filings here across 10 tracked years. It sits 0.8 points above the Polk County average of 3.8.

The worst year on record was 2014, when 16.9% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 8.5% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 53rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 3.5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the IA average is 3.7, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter.

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