Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Armour Fields Eviction Risk: Lower , Kansas City
Tract 29095008500 · Jackson County, MO · pop 3,804 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
29095008500 is a census tract in the Armour Fields area of Kansas City, MO. It scores 3/10 for landlords. The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 0%
Stable renters 1%
Owners 99%
Tract context
Occupied units1,323
Renter share1.0%
SVI overall0.00
Poverty rate0.3%
Median income$226,705
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
1
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
19
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
33
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Kansas City and the region
Centroid at 39.0072, -94.6006 · click any tract to drill in
Why Armour Fields scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Kansas City
6.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.1
State political climate
Missouri legislature & governorship
2.1
Economic stress
0.3% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
tract rent vs county FMR
5.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Kansas City
1.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
4.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Kansas City
4.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Kansas City
4.0
How Armour Fields compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 0
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 0%Socioeconomic
- 7%Household composition
- 11%Racial/ethnic minority
- 4%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: A: Best
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 37%Grade A
- 37%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 0%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)
- 25Total filings over 13 yrs
- 0.00%Avg annual filing rate
- 0.0%Peak (2008)
- 1Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 14 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 4Total filings 2020-21
- 0.1Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.0Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.33×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Kansas City, MO as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
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.
- 4.3%Housing insecurity
- 3.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 3.3%Food insecurity
- 1.8%SNAP enrollment
- 2.9%Transit barriers
- 3.2%No health insurance
- 12.0%Frequent mental distress
- 21.7%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Armour Fields
On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10.
Food insecurity runs 3.3% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 1.8% against 15.2% nationally.
It sits 1.2 points below the Jackson County average of 4.2. Court records carry 25 eviction filings across 13 observed years. Against Jackson County at 43.0%, 38% of renters here are cost-burdened.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground A ("Best"). 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. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 1% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.
Social vulnerability reads 1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 0%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 29095008500
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 29095008500?
Census tract 29095008500 in the Armour Fields neighborhood scores 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 poverty rate in tract 29095008500?
0.3% of residents in tract 29095008500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,804.
Q3
How socially vulnerable is tract 29095008500?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 0th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 0th, household 7th, minority 11th, housing 4th.
Q4
Is tract 29095008500 considered part of Armour Fields?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 29095008500 fall within Armour Fields (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 29095008500?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 25 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 29095008500 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 0.00% of renter households, peaking at 0.0% in 2008. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 29095008500 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 1.33× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran above pre-pandemic norms. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Kansas City eviction risk, MO), 2020-2021.
Q7
What share of households in tract 29095008500 struggle to pay rent?
About 4.3% 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. 3.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 29095008500 compare to Kansas City overall?
Tract 29095008500 scores 3/10, lower than the parent city of Kansas City at 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 29095008500 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of A. 0% 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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