West Side Eviction Risk: Moderate , West St. Paul

Cost burden runs 57% here against 45.6% across Dakota County. The clearest offset is supply constraint at 1.7/10.

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2.1/10. Running hot, local political climate reads 7.5/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 78 filings here across 5 tracked years. SNAP participation runs 7.0% against 15.2% nationally.

Food insecurity runs 10.2% against 17.8% nationally. Average gross rent is $1,122, 12% below the West St. Paul average.

Filings peaked in 2009 at 8.0% of renter households. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for St. Paul. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

In a typical year about 5.5% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #37,882 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Only 25% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.2/10.

Rent consumes only 14% of average household income of $96,413, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

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