Volker Eviction Risk: Moderate , Kansas City

26% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Set annual rent against average income of $41,982 and the ratio lands at 37%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.5/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10. The poverty rate is 18%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

SNAP participation runs 6.7% against 15.2% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 74 filings here across 1 tracked years.

At $1,277 a month, rents run 14% over what the rest of Kansas City commands. The worst year on record was 2016, when 5.5% of renter households were served. 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.

In a typical year about 5.5% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 44th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

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