Nearman Eviction Risk: Moderate , Kansas City

Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.5/10. 19% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

The poverty rate is 28%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2/10.

Food insecurity runs 29.6% against 17.8% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 19.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. 39% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Wyandotte County average of 44.1%.

Average gross rent is $941, 16% below the Kansas City average. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 28 filings here across 1 tracked years. It sits 0.8 points above the Wyandotte County average of 3.8.

The worst year on record was 2016, when 8.7% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.