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Neighborhood · Ranked #6,676 of 84,120 nationally

Westwood Eviction Risk: High , Denver

Tract 08031004504 · Denver County, CO · pop 4,188 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi

Tract 08031004504 sits in the Westwood area of Denver eviction risk, CO, carrying an eviction-risk score of 8.2/10. It is home to 4,188 residents. The severe-burden share is 41%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Risk score
8.2
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 31% Stable renters 15% Owners 54%
Tract context
Occupied units1,160
Renter share45.5%
SVI overall0.84
Poverty rate25.5%
Median income$65,368

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 3 tracts In Westwood
Moderate
Within parent city
93 th percentile
Rank, 93rd percentileLowHigh
#14 of 178 tracts In Denver
Very High
Within county
83 th percentile
Rank, 83rd percentileLowHigh
#32 of 178 tracts In Denver County
High
Within state
99 th percentile
Rank, 99th percentileLowHigh
#15 of 1,447 tracts In Colorado
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Denver and the region

Centroid at 39.7078, -105.0468 · click any tract to drill in

Why Westwood scores 8.2

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Denver
9.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
8.1
State political climate
Colorado legislature & governorship
4.7
Economic stress
25.5% poverty · this tract
6.4
Supply constraint
$1,676 rent vs county FMR
2.8
Rent control risk
Inherited from Denver
7.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
8.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Denver
8.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Denver
7.5

How Westwood compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Westwood risk score vs. parent city / county / state8.2This tracttract 0045046.8Denverparent city6.7Countyavg tract in county4.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 84

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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.

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.

Eviction filings

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)

  • 227Total filings over 8 yrs
  • 4.58%Avg annual filing rate
  • 6.2%Peak (2012)
  • 21Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2009 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 08031004504
Filings dropped 28% over the past 8 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Westwood. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Westwood

Against Denver County at 45.4%, 67% of renters here are cost-burdened. Adults with no health insurance runs 36.8% against 11.3% nationally.

What pushes it up most is local political climate at 9/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 8.5/10.

It sits 1.5 points above the Denver County average of 6.7. The poverty rate is 25%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Running hot, regional political climate reads 8.1/10.

Court records carry 227 eviction filings across 8 observed years. The worst year on record was 2012, when 6.2% of renter households were served.

At $1,676 a month, rents run 8% under what the rest of Denver commands. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 4.6% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 92nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 8.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 08031004504

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 08031004504?

Census tract 08031004504 in the Westwood neighborhood scores 8.2/10 (High tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 08031004504?

Median gross rent is $1,676/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 67% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 08031004504?

25.5% of residents in tract 08031004504 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,188.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 08031004504?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 84th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 94th, household 85th, minority 90th, housing 36th.
Q5

Is tract 08031004504 considered part of Westwood?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 08031004504 fall within Westwood (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 08031004504?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 227 eviction filings across 8 validated years in tract 08031004504 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.58% of renter households, peaking at 6.2% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

How does tract 08031004504 compare to Denver overall?

Tract 08031004504 scores 8.2/10, higher than the parent city of Denver at 6.8/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Denver eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 08031004504 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 1% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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