Somerset Eviction Risk: Lower , Ames

Cost burden runs 59% here against 40.1% across Story County. At $1,561 a month, rents run 53% over what the rest of Ames commands.

The score leans hardest on supply constraint at 9.8/10. The voucher gap is 47.8%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.5/10. Running cool, economic stress reads 1.7/10. Housing insecurity runs 4.9% against 14.2% nationally.

Against the Story County average of 4.4, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.8 points. Adults with no health insurance runs 3.7% against 11.3% nationally. That is riskier than roughly 33% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

At 13% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 2.4/10.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Annual rent works out to 18% of average household income of $102,917.

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