Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally
Beacon Hill Eviction Risk: Moderate , Kansas City
Tract 29095016200 · Jackson County, MO · pop 1,819 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
With a score of 5.4/10, tract 29095016200 in the Beacon Hill area of Kansas City, MO reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 1,819. The severe-burden share is 41%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 39%
Stable renters 31%
Owners 30%
Tract context
Occupied units963
Renter share70.4%
SVI overall0.84
Poverty rate37.8%
Median income$24,250
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
68
th percentile
Elevated
Within county
96
th percentile
Very High
Within state
96
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Kansas City and the region
Centroid at 39.0772, -94.5658 · click any tract to drill in
Why Beacon Hill scores 5.4
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
37.8% poverty · this tract
9.5
Supply constraint
$1,061 rent vs county FMR
2.9
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 Beacon Hill compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 84
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 84%Socioeconomic
- 37%Household composition
- 82%Racial/ethnic minority
- 89%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 18%Grade C
- 82%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)
- 519Total filings over 14 yrs
- 11.37%Avg annual filing rate
- 13.1%Peak (2004)
- 29Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 28% over the past 14 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 291Total filings 2020-21
- 3.8Avg monthly (observed)
- 2.6Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.47×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.
- 27.4%Housing insecurity
- 23.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 34.0%Food insecurity
- 32.0%SNAP enrollment
- 19.8%Transit barriers
- 13.3%No health insurance
- 24.5%Frequent mental distress
- 44.9%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Beacon Hill
Annualized rent equals 53% of average household income of $24,250, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The score leans hardest on economic stress at 9.5/10. Cost burden runs 56% here against 43.0% across Jackson County.
The poverty rate is 38%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10.
Food insecurity runs 34.0% against 17.8% nationally. This is renter territory: 70% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. Housing insecurity runs 27.4% against 14.2% nationally.
It sits 1.2 points above the Jackson County average of 4.2. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 519 filings here across 14 tracked years. At $1,061 a month, rents run 14% under what the rest of Kansas City commands.
Filings peaked in 2004 at 13.1% of renter households.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 29095016200
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 29095016200?
Census tract 29095016200 in the Beacon Hill neighborhood scores 5.4/10 (Moderate 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 29095016200?
Median gross rent is $1,061/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 56% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 29095016200?
37.8% of residents in tract 29095016200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,819.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 29095016200?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 84th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 84th, household 37th, minority 82th, housing 89th.
Q5
Is tract 29095016200 considered part of Beacon Hill?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 29095016200 fall within Beacon Hill (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 29095016200?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 519 eviction filings across 14 validated years in tract 29095016200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 11.37% of renter households, peaking at 13.1% in 2004. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 29095016200 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 1.47× 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.
Q8
What share of households in tract 29095016200 struggle to pay rent?
About 27.4% 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. 23.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 29095016200 compare to Kansas City overall?
Tract 29095016200 scores 5.4/10, higher 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.
Q10
Was tract 29095016200 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 82% 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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