Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally
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.Within parent city
65
th percentile
Elevated
Within county
97
th percentile
Very High
Within state
96
th percentile
Very High
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-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
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 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
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
Q1
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.
Q2
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.
Q3
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.
Q4
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.
Q5
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).
Q6
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.
Q7
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.
Q8
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.
Q9
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.
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