Wichita Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 20173000900 · Sedgwick County, KS · pop 2,447
20173000900 is a census tract in Wichita, KS. It scores 4.8/10 for landlords. It is home to 2,447 residents. The severe-burden share is 48%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
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 4.8
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
Cost burden runs 66% here against 39.0% across Sedgwick County. The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10. The poverty rate is 49%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. Annualized rent equals 38% of average household income of $23,068, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.
Food insecurity runs 35.2% against 17.8% nationally. This is renter territory: 71% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
At $737 a month, rents run 24% under what the rest of Wichita commands. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10. SNAP participation runs 25.4% against 15.2% nationally.
It sits 1.0 points above the Sedgwick County average of 3.8. 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.
That is riskier than roughly 58% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.6/10.
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.
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Highest-risk tracts in Wichita
Top eight tracts in Wichita ranked by composite eviction-risk score.