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Childs Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , St. Petersburg

Tract 12103022000 · Pinellas, FL · pop 3,114 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi

12103022000 is a census tract in the Childs Park area of St. Petersburg, FL. It scores 4.8/10 for landlords. Population here is 3,114. Severe burden reaches 63%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
4.8
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 15% Stable renters 6% Owners 79%
Tract context
Occupied units967
Renter share21.5%
SVI overall0.66
Poverty rate18.9%
Median income$51,526

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
67 th percentile
Rank, 67th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 4 tracts In Childs Park
Elevated
Within parent city
91 th percentile
Rank, 91st percentileLowHigh
#8 of 77 tracts In St. Petersburg
Very High
Within county
81 th percentile
Rank, 81st percentileLowHigh
#52 of 273 tracts In Pinellas
High
Within state
76 th percentile
Rank, 76th percentileLowHigh
#1,236 of 5,122 tracts In Florida
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across St. Petersburg and the region

Centroid at 27.7669, -82.6896 · click any tract to drill in

Why Childs Park scores 4.8

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from St. Petersburg
5.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.0
State political climate
Florida legislature & governorship
1.5
Economic stress
18.9% poverty · this tract
4.7
Supply constraint
$1,659 rent vs county FMR
3.4
Rent control risk
Inherited from St. Petersburg
1.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from St. Petersburg
4.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from St. Petersburg
4.0

How Childs Park compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Childs Park risk score vs. parent city / county / state4.8This tracttract 0220003.5St. Petersburgparent city3.9Countyavg tract in county4.1Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 66

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. 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)

  • 610Total filings over 18 yrs
  • 9.99%Avg annual filing rate
  • 18.9%Peak (2004)
  • 40Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2000 to 2017
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 12103022000
Filings climbed 82% over the past 18 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 134Total filings 2020-21
  • 1.8Avg monthly (observed)
  • 3.4Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.53×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-01-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Tacoma, WA as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Childs Park. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Childs Park

72% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Pinellas County average of 53.4%. Annualized rent equals 39% of average household income of $51,526, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The clearest offset is state political climate at 1.5/10.

Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. The poverty rate is 19%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

It sits 1.0 points above the Pinellas County average of 3.8. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 610 filings here across 18 tracked years.

On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 3/10. The worst year on record was 2004, when 18.9% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 10.0% of renter households face a filing.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.

Frequently asked

About tract 12103022000

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 12103022000?

Census tract 12103022000 in the Childs Park neighborhood scores 4.8/10 (Moderate 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 12103022000?

Median gross rent is $1,659/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 72% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 12103022000?

18.9% of residents in tract 12103022000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,114.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 12103022000?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 66th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 85th, household 65th, minority 81th, housing 18th.
Q5

Is tract 12103022000 considered part of Childs Park?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 12103022000 fall within Childs Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 12103022000?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 610 eviction filings across 18 validated years in tract 12103022000 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 9.99% of renter households, peaking at 18.9% in 2004. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 12103022000 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.53× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings dropped sharply, likely a moratorium effect. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Tacoma, WA), 2020-2021.
Q8

How does tract 12103022000 compare to St. Petersburg overall?

Tract 12103022000 scores 4.8/10, higher than the parent city of St. Petersburg at 3.5/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from St. Petersburg eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9

Was tract 12103022000 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 2% 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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