Armourdale Eviction Risk: Moderate , Kansas City
Tract 20209042600 · Wyandotte County, KS · pop 2,227 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
The Armourdale neighborhood of Kansas City anchors census tract 20209042600, which lands at $1/10 on landlord eviction risk. It lands near the 75th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 76% of renter households, a severe level, and 19% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $905 a month while the average household earns $32,188 a year, roughly 34% of income at the averages. About 50% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Kansas City and the region
Centroid at 39.0835, -94.6359 · click any tract to drill in
Why Armourdale scores 5.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Armourdale compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 93
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 99%Socioeconomic
- 95%Household composition
- 81%Racial/ethnic minority
- 49%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. 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
- 0%Grade C
- 83%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.
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)
- 9Total filings over 1 yrs
- 2.44%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.4%Peak (2016)
- 9Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Armourdale. 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.
- 30.6%Housing insecurity
- 22.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 40.8%Food insecurity
- 28.5%SNAP enrollment
- 19.9%Transit barriers
- 34.7%No health insurance
- 19.5%Frequent mental distress
- 42.0%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Armourdale
The heaviest input here is economic stress at 9.2/10. 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 Kansas City eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Wyandotte County average of 5.2 and above the Kansas statewide average of 4.2. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 30.6% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 22.8% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is predominantly Hispanic or Latino and ranks around the 93rd 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, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
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