NoDo Eviction Risk: Moderate , Council Bluffs

17% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Cost burden runs 47% here against 38.2% across Pottawattamie County.

Against the Pottawattamie County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points. Running cool, state political climate reads 2.3/10. The poverty rate is 24%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.5/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 190 filings here across 4 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2012, when 6.8% of renter households were served.

This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Council Bluffs. 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 5.7% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 8.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the IA average is 3.7, so this tract runs 1.7 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.