Dunbar Eviction Risk: Moderate , Kansas City

27% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The clearest offset is supply constraint at 1.2/10. SNAP participation runs 34.1% against 15.2% nationally.

At $835 a month, rents run 33% under what the rest of Kansas City commands. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 24.4% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. The filing record is not thin: 1,174 evictions over 14 years of observation. It sits 0.9 points above the Jackson County average of 4.2.

The worst year on record was 2009, when 31.2% of renter households were served. 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.

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.