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Neighborhood · Ranked #7,836 of 84,120 nationally

Whittier Eviction Risk: High , Minneapolis

Tract 27053106900 · Hennepin County, MN · pop 2,898 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi

Census tract 27053106900 covers part of the Whittier area of Minneapolis, MN, and scores 8/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 2,898. Against the Hennepin County average of 5.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.9 points.

Risk score
8
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 33% Stable renters 41% Owners 26%
Tract context
Occupied units1,362
Renter share74.0%
SVI overall0.75
Poverty rate29.7%
Median income$61,667

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
33 th percentile
Rank, 33rd percentileLowHigh
#3 of 4 tracts In Whittier
Low
Within parent city
96 th percentile
Rank, 96th percentileLowHigh
#6 of 121 tracts In Minneapolis
Very High
Within county
94 th percentile
Rank, 94th percentileLowHigh
#21 of 329 tracts In Hennepin County
Very High
Within state
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1,502 tracts In Minnesota
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Minneapolis and the region

Centroid at 44.9591, -93.2738 · click any tract to drill in

Why Whittier scores 8

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Minneapolis
9.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.2
State political climate
Minnesota legislature & governorship
4.3
Economic stress
29.7% poverty · this tract
7.4
Supply constraint
$1,171 rent vs county FMR
2.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Minneapolis
7.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
7.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Minneapolis
8.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Minneapolis
7.0

How Whittier compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Whittier risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 8.08.0This tracttract 106900Minneapolis: 6.66.6Minneapolisparent cityCounty: 5.15.1Countyavg tract in countyState: 4.54.5Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 75

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)

  • 143Total filings over 5 yrs
  • 2.77%Avg annual filing rate
  • 3.3%Peak (2009)
  • 27Filings in 2013 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2009 to 2013
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 270531069002009: 34 filings (3.30/100 renter HHs)2010: 32 filings (2.84/100 renter HHs)2011: 29 filings (2.90/100 renter HHs)2012: 21 filings (2.10/100 renter HHs)2013: 27 filings (2.70/100 renter HHs)
Filings dropped 21% over the past 5 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 175Total filings 2020-21
  • 2.3Avg monthly (observed)
  • 1.7Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 1.37×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline2020-01-01: 3 filings (0.96× baseline)2020-02-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-03-01: 2 filings (1.23× baseline)2020-04-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-05-01: 1 filings (0.67× baseline)2020-06-01: 1 filings (0.40× baseline)2020-07-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-08-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-09-01: 1 filings (0.57× baseline)2020-10-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-11-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-12-01: 1 filings (0.57× baseline)2021-01-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-02-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-03-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-04-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-06-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-07-01: 1 filings (0.67× baseline)2021-08-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-09-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-10-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-11-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-12-01: 1 filings (0.57× baseline)2022-01-01: 1 filings (0.32× baseline)2022-02-01: 1 filings (0.67× baseline)2022-03-01: 4 filings (2.47× baseline)2022-04-01: 1 filings (0.50× baseline)2022-05-01: 2 filings (1.33× baseline)2022-06-01: 2 filings (0.80× baseline)2022-07-01: 1 filings (0.67× baseline)2022-08-01: 4 filings (3.57× baseline)2022-09-01: 4 filings (2.29× baseline)2022-10-01: 4 filings (2.67× baseline)2022-11-01: 3 filings (2.17× baseline)2022-12-01: 6 filings (3.43× baseline)2023-01-01: 3 filings (0.96× baseline)2023-02-01: 5 filings (3.33× baseline)2023-03-01: 3 filings (1.85× baseline)2023-04-01: 4 filings (2.00× baseline)2023-05-01: 7 filings (4.67× baseline)2023-06-01: 2 filings (0.80× baseline)2023-07-01: 4 filings (2.67× baseline)2023-08-01: 1 filings (0.89× baseline)2023-09-01: 5 filings (2.86× baseline)2023-10-01: 3 filings (2.00× baseline)2023-11-01: 2 filings (1.45× baseline)2023-12-01: 1 filings (0.57× baseline)2024-01-01: 3 filings (0.96× baseline)2024-02-01: 5 filings (3.33× baseline)2024-03-01: 4 filings (2.47× baseline)2024-04-01: 4 filings (2.00× baseline)2024-05-01: 3 filings (2.00× baseline)2024-06-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2024-07-01: 8 filings (5.33× baseline)2024-08-01: 4 filings (3.57× baseline)2024-09-01: 3 filings (1.71× baseline)2024-10-01: 3 filings (2.00× baseline)2024-11-01: 3 filings (2.17× baseline)2024-12-01: 4 filings (2.29× baseline)2025-01-01: 2 filings (0.64× baseline)2025-02-01: 2 filings (1.33× baseline)2025-03-01: 2 filings (1.23× baseline)2025-04-01: 1 filings (0.50× baseline)2025-05-01: 3 filings (2.00× baseline)2025-06-01: 4 filings (1.60× baseline)2025-07-01: 5 filings (3.33× baseline)2025-08-01: 4 filings (3.57× baseline)2025-09-01: 4 filings (2.29× baseline)2025-10-01: 4 filings (2.67× baseline)2025-11-01: 1 filings (0.72× baseline)2025-12-01: 5 filings (2.86× baseline)2026-01-01: 2 filings (20.00× baseline)2026-02-01: 4 filings (40.00× baseline)2026-03-01: 3 filings (30.00× baseline)2026-04-01: 1 filings (10.00× baseline)2026-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)

Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Minneapolis-Saint Paul, MN as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Whittier. 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 Whittier

The dominant input is local political climate at 9/10. 25% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

This is renter territory: 74% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. The poverty rate is 30%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2/10. The filing record is not thin: 143 evictions over 5 years of observation.

At $1,171 a month, rents run 15% under what the rest of Minneapolis commands. Filings peaked in 2009 at 3.3% of renter households. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Minneapolis. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

In a typical year about 2.8% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 91st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 7.7/10 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.

Frequently asked

About tract 27053106900

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 27053106900?

Census tract 27053106900 in the Whittier neighborhood scores 8/10 (High 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 27053106900?

Median gross rent is $1,171/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 44% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 27053106900?

29.7% of residents in tract 27053106900 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,898.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 27053106900?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 75th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 79th, household 22th, minority 54th, housing 89th.
Q5

Is tract 27053106900 considered part of Whittier?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 27053106900 fall within Whittier (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 27053106900?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 143 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 27053106900 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.77% of renter households, peaking at 3.3% in 2009. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 27053106900 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 1.37× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran above pre-pandemic norms. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Minneapolis eviction risk-Saint Paul, MN), 2020-2021.
Q8

What share of households in tract 27053106900 struggle to pay rent?

About 14.4% 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. 8.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9

How does tract 27053106900 compare to Minneapolis overall?

Tract 27053106900 scores 8/10, higher than the parent city of Minneapolis at 6.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Minneapolis eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q10

Was tract 27053106900 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. 13% 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.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Minneapolis

Top eight tracts in Minneapolis ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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