Madison/Unicorn Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Fargo
Tract 38017000602 · Cass County, ND · pop 2,366 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
The Moderate-tier score of $1/10 for census tract 38017000602 reflects conditions in the Madison/Unicorn Park area of Fargo, North Dakota. That is riskier than about 12% of US census tracts.
About 58% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 6% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $771 monthly, set against $48,459 in average yearly household income, roughly 19% of income at the averages. About 61% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Fargo and the region
Centroid at 46.8773, -96.8081 · click any tract to drill in
Why Madison/Unicorn Park scores 5.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Madison/Unicorn Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 75
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 68%Socioeconomic
- 41%Household composition
- 46%Racial/ethnic minority
- 93%Housing & transportation
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Madison/Unicorn Park. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 13.1%Housing insecurity
- 9.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 18.0%Food insecurity
- 14.2%SNAP enrollment
- 10.3%Transit barriers
- 9.0%No health insurance
- 16.7%Frequent mental distress
- 31.1%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Madison/Unicorn Park
The score leans hardest on economic stress at 8.7/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Fargo eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Cass County average of 3.2 and above the North Dakota statewide average of 3.1. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 75th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
In CDC survey modeling, about 13.1% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 9.7% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 38017000602
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