Bismarck Eviction Risk: Lower

Severe burden reaches 26%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Well under the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 1/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

SNAP participation runs 4.3% against 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity runs 7.6% against 17.8% nationally.

At $894 a month, rents run 11% under what the rest of Bismarck commands. On the national scale it lands near the 25th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 4.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Rent consumes only 12% of average household income of $86,842, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for roughly one in three of renters.

It tracks the Burleigh County average of 3.6 closely.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.