College Square Historic District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Davenport

The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. The poverty rate is 28%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.3/10. The severe-burden share is 12%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Food insecurity runs 27.9% against 17.8% nationally.

Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.5/10. It sits 1.0 points above the Scott County average of 3.7. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 429 filings here across 6 tracked years.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.6% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The worst year on record was 2005, when 17.0% of renter households were served.

This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Davenport. 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 12.3% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 55th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

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