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Riverview Eviction Risk: Moderate , Kansas City

Tract 20209042001 · Wyandotte County, KS · pop 1,408 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi

With a score of 4.8/10, tract 20209042001 in the Riverview area of Kansas City, KS reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Severe burden reaches 32%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
4.8
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 21% Stable renters 36% Owners 43%
Tract context
Occupied units450
Renter share56.4%
SVI overall0.88
Poverty rate28.4%
Median income$34,246

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 7 tracts In Riverview
Very High
Within parent city
88 th percentile
Rank, 88th percentileLowHigh
#8 of 61 tracts In Kansas City
High
Within county
86 th percentile
Rank, 86th percentileLowHigh
#10 of 64 tracts In Wyandotte County
High
Within state
93 th percentile
Rank, 93rd percentileLowHigh
#56 of 829 tracts In Kansas
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Kansas City and the region

Centroid at 39.1106, -94.6311 · click any tract to drill in

Why Riverview scores 4.8

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Kansas City
5.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.5
State political climate
Kansas legislature & governorship
2.0
Economic stress
28.4% poverty · this tract
7.1
Supply constraint
$1,000 rent vs county FMR
2.4
Rent control risk
Inherited from Kansas City
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Kansas City
4.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Kansas City
3.0

How Riverview compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Riverview risk score vs. parent city / county / state4.8This tracttract 0420013.4Kansas Cityparent city3.8Countyavg tract in county3.7Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 88

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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.

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.

Eviction filings

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)

  • 21Total filings over 1 yrs
  • 8.94%Avg annual filing rate
  • 8.9%Peak (2016)
  • 21Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Riverview. 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Riverview

Food insecurity runs 39.9% against 17.8% nationally. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.

Adults with no health insurance runs 29.8% against 11.3% nationally. Set annual rent against average income of $34,246 and the ratio lands at 35%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.5/10. 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.

37% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Wyandotte County average of 44.1%. It sits 1.0 points above the Wyandotte County average of 3.8. The filing record is not thin: 21 evictions over 1 years of observation.

At $1,000 a month, rents run 11% under what the rest of Kansas City commands. Filings peaked in 2016 at 8.9% of renter households.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 20209042001

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 20209042001?

Census tract 20209042001 in the Riverview neighborhood 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.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 20209042001?

Median gross rent is $1,000/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 37% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 20209042001?

28.4% of residents in tract 20209042001 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,408.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 20209042001?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 88th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 93th, household 61th, minority 77th, housing 79th.
Q5

Is tract 20209042001 considered part of Riverview?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 20209042001 fall within Riverview (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 20209042001?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 21 eviction filings across 1 validated years in tract 20209042001 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 8.94% of renter households, peaking at 8.9% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 20209042001 struggle to pay rent?

About 30.8% 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. 23.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 20209042001 compare to Kansas City overall?

Tract 20209042001 scores 4.8/10, higher than the parent city of Kansas City at 3.4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Kansas City eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9

Was tract 20209042001 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 39% 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.
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