The Wilds Eviction Risk: Lower , West Fargo

At $1,707 a month, rents run 54% over what the rest of West Fargo commands. Against Cass County at 36.2%, 20% of renters here are cost-burdened.

The voucher gap is 68.7%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1/10. On the softer side, state political climate reads 1.5/10.

SNAP participation runs 4.7% against 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity runs 7.7% against 17.8% nationally.

Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 17% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

Social vulnerability reads 1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 18% of average household income of $113,838, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. It tracks the Cass County average of 3.5 closely.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.