Census Tract · Ranked #35,669 of 84,120 nationally

Wichita Eviction Risk: Moderate

Tract 20173001100 · Sedgwick County, KS · pop 2,456

With a score of 4.8/10, tract 20173001100 in Wichita, KS reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,456 residents. Against Sedgwick County at 39.0%, roughly one in four of renters here are cost-burdened.

Risk score

4.8

Moderate

Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 11% Stable renters 33% Owners 56%

Tract context

Occupied units846

Renter share44.0%

SVI overall0.85

Poverty rate23.3%

Median income$46,689

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Wichita and the region

Centroid at 37.6981, -97.3010 · click any tract to drill in

Why Wichita scores 4.8

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly

Local political climate

Inherited from Wichita

3.5

Regional political climate

2024 county presidential margin

4.4

State political climate

Kansas legislature & governorship

2.0

Economic stress

23.3% poverty · this tract

5.8

Supply constraint

$985 rent vs county FMR

4.9

Rent control risk

Inherited from Wichita

1.0

Eviction process difficulty

State law sets the calendar

2.5

Tenant organizing strength

Inherited from Wichita

2.0

Housing court bias

Inherited from Wichita

2.5

How Wichita compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 85

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

86%Socioeconomic
99%Household composition
69%Racial/ethnic minority
36%Housing & transportation

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

13%Grade A
46%Grade B
10%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.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

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.

25.0%Housing insecurity
20.1%Utility-shutoff threat
31.8%Food insecurity
23.8%SNAP enrollment
15.4%Transit barriers
17.2%No health insurance
20.5%Frequent mental distress
39.4%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Wichita

Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2/10. Food insecurity runs 31.8% against 17.8% nationally.

Well under the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 2/10. The poverty rate is 23%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

It sits 1.0 points above the Sedgwick County average of 3.8. SNAP participation runs 23.8% against 15.2% nationally.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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 8.6/10.

Statewide the KS average is 3.7, so this tract runs 1.1 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 20173001100

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 20173001100?

Census tract 20173001100 in Wichita 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.

What is the average rent in tract 20173001100?

Median gross rent is $985/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 25% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 20173001100?

23.3% of residents in tract 20173001100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,456.

How socially vulnerable is tract 20173001100?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 85th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 86th, household 99th, minority 69th, housing 36th.

What share of households in tract 20173001100 struggle to pay rent?

About 25.0% 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. 20.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 20173001100 compare to Wichita overall?

Tract 20173001100 scores 4.8/10, higher than the parent city of Wichita at 3.4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Wichita eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.

Was tract 20173001100 historically redlined?

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

Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Wichita

Top eight tracts in Wichita ranked by composite eviction-risk score.