Council Bluffs Eviction Risk: Moderate

19% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Running cool, state political climate reads 2.3/10. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2.4/10.

Against the Pottawattamie County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.9 points. The filing record is not thin: 95 evictions over 4 years of observation.

At $932 a month, rents run 10% under what the rest of Council Bluffs commands. Filings peaked in 2013 at 8.4% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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 6.9% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #34,278 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.4/10.

Statewide the IA average is 3.7, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.