Wichita Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 20173000900 · Sedgwick County, KS · pop 2,447
Tract 20173000900, home to 2,447 residents in Wichita in Sedgwick County, scores $1/10 for landlord eviction risk. That is riskier than roughly 39% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
66% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 48% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $737 a month against an average household income of $23,068 a year, roughly 38% of income at the averages. Renters make up 71% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Wichita and the region
Centroid at 37.7147, -97.2916 · click any tract to drill in
Why Wichita scores 5.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Wichita compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 96
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 99%Socioeconomic
- 34%Household composition
- 68%Racial/ethnic minority
- 99%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 14%Grade C
- 7%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.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 24.3%Housing insecurity
- 20.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 35.2%Food insecurity
- 25.4%SNAP enrollment
- 20.3%Transit barriers
- 16.0%No health insurance
- 26.2%Frequent mental distress
- 40.3%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Wichita
The heaviest input here is economic stress 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 Wichita eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Sedgwick County average of 4.2 and above the Kansas statewide average of 4.2. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
Part of this tract, about 7% of its area, sat in the redlined grade-D zone on 1930s HOLC maps, though its dominant grade was C ("Declining"). That lending history still correlates with present-day rent burden.
The tract is White and Hispanic or Latino and ranks around the 96th 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.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 20173000900
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Highest-risk tracts in Wichita
Top eight tracts in Wichita ranked by composite eviction-risk score.