Wichita Eviction Risk: Moderate

The severe-burden share is 27%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. 50% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Sedgwick County average of 39.0%.

Average gross rent is $711, 27% below the Wichita average. The poverty rate is 29%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2/10.

Well under the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 2/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 21.3% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

SNAP participation runs 25.3% against 15.2% nationally. Against the Sedgwick County average of 3.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.0 points. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

Nationally it ranks #35,669 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.9/10.

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.