Within parent city
100
th percentile
Very High
Census Tract · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally
Council Bluffs Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 19155030700 · Pottawattamie County, IA · pop 2,740
Census tract 19155030700 covers part of Council Bluffs, IA, and scores 5.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,740 residents. Against Pottawattamie County at 38.2%, about half of renters here are cost-burdened.
Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 29%
Stable renters 29%
Owners 42%
Tract context
Occupied units1,019
Renter share58.2%
SVI overall0.80
Poverty rate23.6%
Median income$46,838
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
100
th percentile
Very High
Within state
99
th percentile
Very High
National
70
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Council Bluffs and the region
Centroid at 41.2612, -95.8603 · click any tract to drill in
Why Council Bluffs scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Council Bluffs
3.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.2
State political climate
Iowa legislature & governorship
2.3
Economic stress
23.6% poverty · this tract
5.9
Supply constraint
$1,012 rent vs county FMR
3.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Council Bluffs
5.4
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.9
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Council Bluffs
7.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Council Bluffs
5.8
How Council Bluffs compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 80
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 88%Socioeconomic
- 31%Household composition
- 48%Racial/ethnic minority
- 87%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 36%Grade B
- 2%Grade C
- 61%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Eviction filings
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 220Total filings over 4 yrs
- 8.92%Avg annual filing rate
- 11.0%Peak (2012)
- 44Filings in 2014 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 4 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 18.5%Housing insecurity
- 12.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 27.7%Food insecurity
- 25.0%SNAP enrollment
- 13.3%Transit barriers
- 15.0%No health insurance
- 21.5%Frequent mental distress
- 38.8%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Council Bluffs
The main counterweight is eviction-process difficulty at 1.9/10. 20% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. It sits 1.4 points above the Pottawattamie County average of 4.0.
Running cool, state political climate reads 2.3/10. The poverty rate is 24%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.5/10.
Food insecurity runs 27.7% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 25.0% against 15.2% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 220 filings here across 4 tracked years.
The worst year on record was 2012, when 11.0% of renter households were served. 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 8.9% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 19155030700
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 19155030700?
Census tract 19155030700 in Council Bluffs scores 5.4/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 19155030700?
Median gross rent is $1,012/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 50% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 19155030700?
23.6% of residents in tract 19155030700 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,740.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 19155030700?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 80th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 88th, household 31th, minority 48th, housing 87th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 19155030700?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 220 eviction filings across 4 validated years in tract 19155030700 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 8.92% of renter households, peaking at 11.0% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 19155030700 struggle to pay rent?
About 18.5% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 12.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 19155030700 compare to Council Bluffs overall?
Tract 19155030700 scores 5.4/10, higher than the parent city of Council Bluffs at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Council Bluffs eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 19155030700 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 61% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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Highest-risk tracts in Council Bluffs
Top eight tracts in Council Bluffs ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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/ 10 · Moderate
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/ 10 · Moderate
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/ 10 · Moderate
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/ 10 · Moderate
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