Iowa State Center Eviction Risk: Elevated , Ames

The poverty rate is 42%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. 30% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.5/10. It sits 2.0 points above the Story County average of 4.4. This is renter territory: 71% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Well under the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 1.9/10. Cost burden runs 47% here against 40.1% across Story County.

Nationally it ranks #16,032 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 3.9/10.

Statewide the IA average is 3.7, so this tract runs 2.7 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Average gross rent is $1,000, close to the Ames average.

Annual rent works out to 21% of average household income of $56,108.

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