Neighborhood · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally

Blue Hills Eviction Risk: Moderate , Kansas City

Tract 29095007500 · Jackson County, MO · pop 2,828 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi

With a score of 5.4/10, tract 29095007500 in the Blue Hills area of Kansas City, MO reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Severe burden reaches 33%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score

5.4

Moderate

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 28% Stable renters 33% Owners 39%

Tract context

Occupied units922

Renter share60.7%

SVI overall0.38

Poverty rate27.6%

Median income$56,750

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Kansas City and the region

Centroid at 39.0341, -94.5688 · click any tract to drill in

Why Blue Hills 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

27.6% poverty · this tract

6.9

Supply constraint

$1,296 rent vs county FMR

4.6

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 Blue Hills compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 38

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

68%Socioeconomic
3%Household composition
67%Racial/ethnic minority
39%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
28%Grade B
66%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)

620Total filings over 14 yrs
8.65%Avg annual filing rate
15.9%Peak (2003)
36Filings in 2017 (latest validated)

Filings by year 2003 to 2017

Filings dropped 56% over the past 14 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

168Total filings 2020-21
2.2Avg monthly (observed)
3.1Pre-pandemic baseline
0.71×Ratio to baseline

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

Pandemic filings ran below 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 Blue Hills. 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.

17.4%Housing insecurity
12.9%Utility-shutoff threat
20.2%Food insecurity
15.0%SNAP enrollment
13.2%Transit barriers
9.3%No health insurance
24.2%Frequent mental distress
36.1%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Blue Hills

The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10.

The poverty rate is 28%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.1/10.

Against the Jackson County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points. Court records carry 620 eviction filings across 14 observed years.

The worst year on record was 2003, when 15.9% of renter households were served. 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 8.7% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 70% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4.5/10.

Statewide the MO average is 3.8, so this tract runs 1.6 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

Rent takes 30% or more of income for 46% of renters.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 29095007500

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 29095007500?

Census tract 29095007500 in the Blue Hills 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 29095007500?

Median gross rent is $1,296/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 46% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 29095007500?

27.6% of residents in tract 29095007500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,828.

How socially vulnerable is tract 29095007500?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 38th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 68th, household 3th, minority 67th, housing 39th.

Is tract 29095007500 considered part of Blue Hills?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 29095007500 fall within Blue Hills (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 29095007500?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 620 eviction filings across 14 validated years in tract 29095007500 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 8.65% of renter households, peaking at 15.9% in 2003. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.

Did eviction filings in tract 29095007500 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.71× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Kansas City eviction risk, MO), 2020-2021.

What share of households in tract 29095007500 struggle to pay rent?

About 17.4% 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. 12.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 29095007500 compare to Kansas City overall?

Tract 29095007500 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 29095007500 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. 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.

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