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Blenheim Eviction Risk: Moderate , Kansas City

Tract 29095008700 · Jackson County, MO · pop 2,666 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi

Tract 29095008700 sits in the Blenheim area of Kansas City eviction risk, MO, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.4/10. It is home to 2,666 residents. Cost burden runs 63% here against 43.0% across Jackson County.

Risk score

5.4

Moderate

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 43% Stable renters 25% Owners 32%

Tract context

Occupied units1,012

Renter share68.4%

SVI overall0.97

Poverty rate34.4%

Median income$40,577

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Kansas City and the region

Centroid at 39.0056, -94.5652 · click any tract to drill in

Why Blenheim scores 5.4

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly

Local 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

34.4% poverty · this tract

8.6

Supply constraint

$1,024 rent vs county FMR

2.6

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 Blenheim compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 97

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

85%Socioeconomic
90%Household composition
87%Racial/ethnic minority
98%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
2%Grade B
55%Grade C
1%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)

706Total filings over 14 yrs
10.41%Avg annual filing rate
12.7%Peak (2014)
57Filings in 2017 (latest validated)

Filings by year 2003 to 2017

Filings climbed 24% over the past 14 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

371Total filings 2020-21
4.8Avg monthly (observed)
4.3Pre-pandemic baseline
1.11×Ratio to baseline

Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01

Pandemic filings ran near baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Kansas City, MO as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Blenheim. 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.

32.9%Housing insecurity
29.1%Utility-shutoff threat
41.1%Food insecurity
41.5%SNAP enrollment
22.6%Transit barriers
13.7%No health insurance
23.8%Frequent mental distress
49.6%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Blenheim

37% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. SNAP participation runs 41.5% against 15.2% nationally.

Housing insecurity runs 32.9% against 14.2% nationally. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 8.6/10. The poverty rate is 34%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. This is renter territory: 68% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. It sits 1.2 points above the Jackson County average of 4.2.

Average gross rent is $1,024, 17% below the Kansas City average. Court records carry 706 eviction filings across 14 observed years. Filings peaked in 2014 at 12.7% of renter households.

This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Greater Kansas City. 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 10.4% of renter households face a filing.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.

Frequently asked

About tract 29095008700

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 29095008700?

Census tract 29095008700 in the Blenheim 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.

What is the average rent in tract 29095008700?

Median gross rent is $1,024/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 63% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 29095008700?

34.4% of residents in tract 29095008700 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,666.

How socially vulnerable is tract 29095008700?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 97th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 85th, household 90th, minority 87th, housing 98th.

Is tract 29095008700 considered part of Blenheim?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 29095008700 fall within Blenheim (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 29095008700?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 706 eviction filings across 14 validated years in tract 29095008700 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 10.41% of renter households, peaking at 12.7% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.

Did eviction filings in tract 29095008700 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 1.11× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings returned near baseline. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Kansas City eviction risk, MO), 2020-2021.

What share of households in tract 29095008700 struggle to pay rent?

About 32.9% 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. 29.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 29095008700 compare to Kansas City overall?

Tract 29095008700 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 29095008700 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. 1% 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 Kansas City

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

Eviction Lab tract-level court records (2000-2018) and Eviction Tracking System, Princeton University. Open Data Commons Attribution license. evictionlab.org