Welborn Eviction Risk: Moderate , Kansas City

Food insecurity runs 35.3% against 17.8% nationally. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.5/10.

The poverty rate is 28%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 21.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2/10.

Severe burden reaches 9%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. It sits 0.9 points above the Wyandotte County average of 3.8.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 31 filings here across 1 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2016 at 7.0% of renter households. 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.

In a typical year about 7.0% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 55th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 8.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

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