Ames Eviction Risk: Moderate

Well under the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 1.9/10. Running hot, housing-court posture reads 8/10.

Severe burden reaches 12%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Food insecurity runs 7.7% against 17.8% nationally.

SNAP participation runs 6.0% against 15.2% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 69 filings here across 9 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2006, when 3.2% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 1.5% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #35,669 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.9/10. Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $71,167, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the IA average is 3.7, so this tract runs 1.1 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. 39% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.