Barnum Eviction Risk: Elevated , Denver
Tract 08031000903 · Denver County, CO · pop 5,289 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
Census tract 08031000903 belongs to the Barnum neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. It is home to 5,289 residents and scores 7.2/10, an elevated reading for landlords. That is riskier than about 97% of US census tracts.
59% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 36% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,503 a month against an average household income of $61,591 a year, roughly 29% of income at the averages. Renters make up 39% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Denver and the region
Centroid at 39.7189, -105.0319 · click any tract to drill in
Why Barnum scores 6.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Barnum compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 83
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 93%Socioeconomic
- 80%Household composition
- 82%Racial/ethnic minority
- 38%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 90%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 283Total filings over 8 yrs
- 4.35%Avg annual filing rate
- 8.2%Peak (2009)
- 22Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
What drives eviction risk in Barnum
The score leans hardest on eviction process difficulty at 8.5/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Denver eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Denver County average of 6.7 and above the Colorado statewide average of 5.7. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly Hispanic or Latino and ranks around the 83rd 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.
This tract overlaps land the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation redlined in the 1930s, a dominant grade of D ("Hazardous") across 90% of the tract. Redlining cut off mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class blocks, and those areas still tend to carry higher rent burden and eviction filings today.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
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