Curtis Park Eviction Risk: High , Denver
Tract 08031001603 · Denver County, CO · pop 6,018 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
Census tract 08031001603 covers part of the Curtis Park area of Denver, CO, and scores 8.2/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 6,018. This is renter territory: 92% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Denver and the region
Centroid at 39.7568, -104.9857 · click any tract to drill in
Why Curtis Park scores 8.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Curtis Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 81
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 79%Socioeconomic
- 15%Household composition
- 55%Racial/ethnic minority
- 99%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
- 42%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.
What drives eviction risk in Curtis Park
The score leans hardest on local political climate at 9/10. Set annual rent against average income of $70,334 and the ratio lands at 34%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.
22% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Against Denver County at 45.4%, 56% of renters here are cost-burdened. Sitting well above the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 8.5/10.
Against the Denver County average of 6.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points. On the high side, regional political climate reads 8.1/10. The poverty rate is 21%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
Average gross rent is $1,998, 9% above the Denver average. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Denver. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. Nationally it ranks #6,676 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the CO average is 4.9, so this tract runs 3.3 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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