Ironwood Eviction Risk: Lower , Billings

Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Running cool, economic stress reads 1/10.

On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.7/10. Food insecurity runs 5.5% against 17.8% nationally.

Cost burden runs 51% here against 44.5% across Yellowstone County. The voucher gap is 17.8%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

It sits 0.6 points below the Yellowstone County average of 3.6. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Only 9% 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. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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.