West Bend Eviction Risk: Moderate

Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1.2/10. 13% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2.7/10.

Food insecurity runs 8.4% against 17.8% nationally. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.8/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 125 filings here across 18 tracked years. It sits 0.6 points above the Washington County average of 3.8. Average gross rent is $974, 9% below the West Bend average.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 4.0% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Filings peaked in 2009 at 2.7% of renter households.

In a typical year about 1.4% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 49% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 3.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $72,778, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.

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