Council Bluffs Eviction Risk: Moderate

Cost burden runs 29% here against 38.2% across Pottawattamie County. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.9/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.3/10.

Average gross rent is $833, 19% below the Council Bluffs average. The severe-burden share is 11%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The filing record is not thin: 122 evictions over 4 years of observation.

Filings peaked in 2013 at 4.8% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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 3.7% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 53rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Against average income of $68,610, annual rent is just 15%.

Statewide the IA average is 3.7, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter.

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.