Council Bluffs Eviction Risk: Moderate

Cost burden runs 88% here against 38.2% across Pottawattamie County. The clearest offset is eviction-process difficulty at 1.9/10. 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 23%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.5/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 128 filings here across 4 tracked years.

The worst year on record was 2013, when 13.8% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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 10.5% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #24,859 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the IA average is 3.7, so this tract runs 1.7 points hotter.

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