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Sunset Hill West Eviction Risk: Lower , Mission Hills

Tract 20091050800 · Johnson County, KS · pop 2,409 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi

Census tract 20091050800 belongs to the Sunset Hill West area of Mission Hills, Kansas. It is home to 2,409 residents and scores 2.9/10, a lower reading for landlords. That is riskier than roughly 2% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.

Rent eats 30% or more of income for 0% of renter households, a modest level, and 0% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average household income is about $250,001 a year. Renters make up 0% of occupied homes.

Risk score

1.1

Lower

Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 0% Stable renters 0% Owners 100%

Tract context

Occupied units811

Renter share0.4%

SVI overall0.00

Poverty rate0.6%

Median income$250,001

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Mission Hills and the region

Centroid at 39.0184, -94.6203 · click any tract to drill in

Why Sunset Hill West scores 1.1

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly

Local political climate

Inherited from Mission Hills

6.9

Regional political climate

2024 county presidential margin

5.4

State political climate

Kansas legislature & governorship

2.0

Economic stress

0.6% poverty · this tract

1.0

Supply constraint

tract rent vs county FMR

5.0

Rent control risk

Inherited from Mission Hills

1.1

Eviction process difficulty

State law sets the calendar

1.8

Tenant organizing strength

Inherited from Mission Hills

1.0

Housing court bias

Inherited from Mission Hills

2.3

How Sunset Hill West compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 0

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

0%Socioeconomic
20%Household composition
16%Racial/ethnic minority
0%Housing & transportation

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: A: Best

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

63%Grade A
0%Grade B
0%Grade C
0%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.

CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress

Eviction-adjacent indicators

Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.

3.6%Housing insecurity
2.9%Utility-shutoff threat
3.1%Food insecurity
1.3%SNAP enrollment
2.5%Transit barriers
3.2%No health insurance
9.7%Frequent mental distress
19.8%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Sunset Hill West

The score leans hardest on supply constraint at $1/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Mission eviction risk Hills, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.

Set against its neighbors, this tract scores below the Johnson County average of 3.9 and below the Kansas statewide average of 4.2. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.

HOLC surveyors mapped this tract in the 1930s with a dominant grade of A ("Best"), above the redlined D tier. The grading still shaped decades of lending and development in the surrounding area.

In CDC survey modeling, about 3.6% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 2.9% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.

For a landlord, this is among the easier places to operate: faster process, lighter tenant-protection overhead, and shorter typical cases.

Frequently asked

About tract 20091050800

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 20091050800?

Census tract 20091050800 in the Sunset Hill West neighborhood scores 1.1/10 (Lower tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

What is the poverty rate in tract 20091050800?

0.6% of residents in tract 20091050800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,409.

How socially vulnerable is tract 20091050800?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 0th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 0th, household 20th, minority 16th, housing 0th.

Is tract 20091050800 considered part of Sunset Hill West?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 20091050800 fall within Sunset Hill West (neighborhood centroid within 0.9 miles, OSM data).

What share of households in tract 20091050800 struggle to pay rent?

About 3.6% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 2.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 20091050800 compare to Mission Hills overall?

Tract 20091050800 scores 1.1/10, lower than the parent city of Mission Hills at 2.1/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Mission eviction risk Hills; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.

Was tract 20091050800 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of A. 0% 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.