Inver Grove Heights Eviction Risk: Lower

Severe burden reaches 22%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. 52% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Dakota County average of 45.6%.

SNAP participation runs 5.1% against 15.2% nationally. Against the Dakota County average of 4.2, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.9 points.

The filing record is not thin: 62 evictions over 5 years of observation. Housing insecurity runs 6.7% against 14.2% nationally. Filings peaked in 2012 at 4.7% of renter households.

In a typical year about 3.7% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #61,558 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 14% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Against average income of $130,563, annual rent is just 13%.

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.