Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally
Blue Hills Eviction Risk: Moderate , Kansas City
Tract 29095007600 · Jackson County, MO · pop 2,061 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
Tract 29095007600 sits in the Blue Hills area of Kansas City eviction risk, MO, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.4/10. The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10.
Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 23%
Stable renters 25%
Owners 52%
Tract context
Occupied units920
Renter share48.0%
SVI overall0.62
Poverty rate29.9%
Median income$49,798
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
66
th percentile
Elevated
Within county
93
th percentile
Very High
Within state
96
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Kansas City and the region
Centroid at 39.0331, -94.5593 · click any tract to drill in
Why Blue Hills 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
29.9% poverty · this tract
7.5
Supply constraint
$1,288 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: 62
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 84%Socioeconomic
- 56%Household composition
- 88%Racial/ethnic minority
- 15%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
- 31%Grade B
- 64%Grade C
- 5%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)
- 757Total filings over 14 yrs
- 14.35%Avg annual filing rate
- 20.4%Peak (2008)
- 45Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 14 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 274Total filings 2020-21
- 3.6Avg monthly (observed)
- 4.3Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.84×Ratio to baseline
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.
- 29.3%Housing insecurity
- 22.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 34.1%Food insecurity
- 30.2%SNAP enrollment
- 18.1%Transit barriers
- 14.4%No health insurance
- 21.8%Frequent mental distress
- 45.0%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Blue Hills
The severe-burden share is 22%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Food insecurity runs 34.1% against 17.8% nationally. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10.
The poverty rate is 30%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. SNAP participation runs 30.2% against 15.2% nationally.
Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.1/10. It sits 1.2 points above the Jackson County average of 4.2. Court records carry 757 eviction filings across 14 observed years.
Against Jackson County at 43.0%, 47% of renters here are cost-burdened. The worst year on record was 2008, when 20.4% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 29095007600
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 29095007600?
Census tract 29095007600 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.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 29095007600?
Median gross rent is $1,288/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 47% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 29095007600?
29.9% of residents in tract 29095007600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,061.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 29095007600?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 62th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 84th, household 56th, minority 88th, housing 15th.
Q5
Is tract 29095007600 considered part of Blue Hills?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 29095007600 fall within Blue Hills (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 29095007600?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 757 eviction filings across 14 validated years in tract 29095007600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 14.35% of renter households, peaking at 20.4% in 2008. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 29095007600 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.84× 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.
Q8
What share of households in tract 29095007600 struggle to pay rent?
About 29.3% 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. 22.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 29095007600 compare to Kansas City overall?
Tract 29095007600 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 29095007600 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. 5% 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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