Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally
Columbus Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Kansas City
Tract 29095000300 · Jackson County, MO · pop 2,085 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
Census tract 29095000300 covers part of the Columbus Park area of Kansas City, MO, and scores 5.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,085 residents. The dominant input is economic stress at 8.7/10.
Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 34%
Stable renters 44%
Owners 22%
Tract context
Occupied units1,123
Renter share78.5%
SVI overall0.78
Poverty rate34.8%
Median income$53,990
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
83
th percentile
High
Within county
75
th percentile
High
Within state
96
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Kansas City and the region
Centroid at 39.1142, -94.5707 · click any tract to drill in
Why Columbus Park 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
34.8% poverty · this tract
8.7
Supply constraint
$1,144 rent vs county FMR
3.5
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 Columbus Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 78
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 83%Socioeconomic
- 76%Household composition
- 64%Racial/ethnic minority
- 56%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
- 0%Grade C
- 33%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)
- 253Total filings over 14 yrs
- 3.36%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.5%Peak (2009)
- 12Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 71% over the past 14 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 182Total filings 2020-21
- 2.4Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.4Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.66×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above 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 Columbus Park. 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.
- 18.7%Housing insecurity
- 14.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 21.9%Food insecurity
- 18.5%SNAP enrollment
- 12.9%Transit barriers
- 11.4%No health insurance
- 21.6%Frequent mental distress
- 36.6%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Columbus Park
The poverty rate is 35%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. This is renter territory: 79% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. The severe-burden share is 18%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Against the Jackson County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points. The filing record is not thin: 253 evictions over 14 years of observation. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 14.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.
Filings peaked in 2009 at 5.5% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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.
In a typical year about 3.4% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
Social vulnerability reads 8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
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 29095000300
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 29095000300?
Census tract 29095000300 in the Columbus Park 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 29095000300?
Median gross rent is $1,144/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 44% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 29095000300?
34.8% of residents in tract 29095000300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,085.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 29095000300?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 78th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 83th, household 76th, minority 64th, housing 56th.
Q5
Is tract 29095000300 considered part of Columbus Park?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 29095000300 fall within Columbus Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 29095000300?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 253 eviction filings across 14 validated years in tract 29095000300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.36% of renter households, peaking at 5.5% in 2009. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 29095000300 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 1.66× 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 29095000300 struggle to pay rent?
About 18.7% 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. 14.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 29095000300 compare to Kansas City overall?
Tract 29095000300 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 29095000300 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. 33% 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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