Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #61,558 of 84,120 nationally
Westheight Eviction Risk: Lower , Kansas City
Tract 20209041300 · Wyandotte County, KS · pop 4,857 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
With a score of 3.3/10, tract 20209041300 in the Westheight area of Kansas City, KS reads lower for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 4,857 residents. 33% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Risk score
3.3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 8%
Stable renters 15%
Owners 77%
Tract context
Occupied units1,715
Renter share22.9%
SVI overall0.87
Poverty rate14.8%
Median income$58,940
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
35
th percentile
Low
Within county
40
th percentile
Low
Within state
46
th percentile
Moderate
Geographic context
Risk heat across Kansas City and the region
Centroid at 39.1232, -94.6661 · click any tract to drill in
Why Westheight scores 3.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal 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
14.8% poverty · this tract
3.7
Supply constraint
$1,058 rent vs county FMR
2.9
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 Westheight compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 87
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 86%Socioeconomic
- 93%Household composition
- 87%Racial/ethnic minority
- 56%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 4%Grade B
- 74%Grade C
- 12%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.
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)
- 31Total filings over 1 yrs
- 3.74%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.7%Peak (2016)
- 31Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Westheight. 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.
- 25.2%Housing insecurity
- 17.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 30.0%Food insecurity
- 17.7%SNAP enrollment
- 14.8%Transit barriers
- 26.0%No health insurance
- 17.7%Frequent mental distress
- 33.6%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Westheight
The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.5/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 26.0% against 11.3% nationally.
Cost burden runs 35% here against 44.1% across Wyandotte County. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10.
Food insecurity runs 30.0% against 17.8% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 31 filings here across 1 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2016, when 3.7% 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 3.7% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 27th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Only 23% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.9/10.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 20209041300
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 20209041300?
Census tract 20209041300 in the Westheight neighborhood scores 3.3/10 (Lower 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 20209041300?
Median gross rent is $1,058/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 35% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 20209041300?
14.8% of residents in tract 20209041300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,857.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 20209041300?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 87th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 86th, household 93th, minority 87th, housing 56th.
Q5
Is tract 20209041300 considered part of Westheight?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 20209041300 fall within Westheight (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 20209041300?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 31 eviction filings across 1 validated years in tract 20209041300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.74% of renter households, peaking at 3.7% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 20209041300 struggle to pay rent?
About 25.2% 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. 17.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 20209041300 compare to Kansas City overall?
Tract 20209041300 scores 3.3/10, right in line with 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 20209041300 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. 12% 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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