Mead Neighborhood Eviction Risk: Moderate , Wichita

On the softer side, state political climate reads 2/10. Severe burden reaches 17%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running cool, tenant-organizing strength reads 2/10.

32% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Sedgwick County average of 39.0%. The poverty rate is 19%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

At $1,100 a month, rents run 13% over what the rest of Wichita commands. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Wichita. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. On the national scale it lands near the 46th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 6.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. It tracks the Sedgwick County average of 3.8 closely.

Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $58,578. 45% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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