The Old Market Eviction Risk: Moderate , Omaha

Severe burden reaches 27%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.8/10. The poverty rate is 29%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Adults with no health insurance runs 24.9% against 11.3% nationally. Against the Douglas County average of 3.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points.

Cost burden runs 50% here against 44.0% across Douglas County. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 7.5/10. At $1,002 a month, rents run 16% under what the rest of Omaha commands.

Court records carry 872 eviction filings across 13 observed years. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 17.2% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The worst year on record was 2002, when 17.6% of renter households were served.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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. In a typical year about 12.4% of renter households face a filing.

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.