Council Bluffs Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 19155031400 · Pottawattamie County, IA · pop 3,973
Tract 19155031400 covers Council Bluffs in Iowa. Home to 3,973 residents, it scores 5.1/10 on landlord eviction risk. That is riskier than about 43% of US census tracts.
38% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a high level, and 16% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $1,115 a month while the average household earns $71,101 a year, roughly 19% of income at the averages. Renters make up 40% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Council Bluffs and the region
Centroid at 41.2018, -95.8882 · click any tract to drill in
Why Council Bluffs scores 3.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Council Bluffs compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 61
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 44%Socioeconomic
- 89%Household composition
- 38%Racial/ethnic minority
- 57%Housing & transportation
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)
- 64Total filings over 4 yrs
- 2.57%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.3%Peak (2012)
- 11Filings in 2014 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 12.1%Housing insecurity
- 8.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 16.6%Food insecurity
- 14.3%SNAP enrollment
- 8.6%Transit barriers
- 8.9%No health insurance
- 18.3%Frequent mental distress
- 31.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Council Bluffs
The score leans hardest on tenant organizing strength at 7.5/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Council Bluffs eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Pottawattamie County average of 4.9 and above the Iowa statewide average of 4.3. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 61st percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
In CDC survey modeling, about 12.1% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 8.4% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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Highest-risk tracts in Council Bluffs
Top eight tracts in Council Bluffs ranked by composite eviction-risk score.