Westheight Eviction Risk: Lower , Kansas City
Tract 20209041600 · Wyandotte County, KS · pop 3,539 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Census tract 20209041600 covers part of the Westheight area of Kansas City, KS, and scores 3/10 on landlord eviction risk. The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Kansas City and the region
Centroid at 39.1152, -94.6552 · click any tract to drill in
Why Westheight scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Westheight compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 84
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 81%Socioeconomic
- 55%Household composition
- 90%Racial/ethnic minority
- 83%Housing & transportation
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
- 35%Grade B
- 56%Grade C
- 4%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.
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)
- 24Total filings over 1 yrs
- 5.81%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.8%Peak (2016)
- 24Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Westheight. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 21.9%Housing insecurity
- 14.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 26.3%Food insecurity
- 14.5%SNAP enrollment
- 12.8%Transit barriers
- 24.6%No health insurance
- 17.2%Frequent mental distress
- 33.1%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Westheight
On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.5/10. The severe-burden share is 17%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Adults with no health insurance runs 24.6% against 11.3% nationally. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10.
Against Wyandotte County at 44.1%, 39% of renters here are cost-burdened. Court records carry 24 eviction filings across 1 observed years.
Against the Wyandotte County average of 3.8, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.8 points. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 14.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The worst year on record was 2016, when 5.8% 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 5.8% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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