East Meyer Eviction Risk: Lower

The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure, at 1.5/10. 16% are severely burdened, paying half their income or more in rent. That cohort has no absorption capacity for an unexpected bill, and it is where non-payment filings originate. On the softer side is economic stress, at 2.3/10.

CDC survey data puts housing insecurity at 22.5% of adults, against 14.2% nationally. 15.7% of adults report being unable to pay a utility bill, against a 9.2% national figure. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Court records for this tract carry 1,136 eviction filings.

The worst year on record was 2008, when filings touched 24.8% of renter households. The most recent observed rate, 10.1% in 2017, is well off that peak. Among the 66 mapped neighborhoods of Kansas City, it ranks #47 by risk, the lower third.

For a like-for-like read, Central Downtown and Central Business District KC score within a fraction of it. Social vulnerability runs high at 7.6/10, concentrating the disaster- and displacement-exposure this model treats as a lagging risk input.

Average gross rent runs $1,216, close to the Kansas City average.

One tract means one number: 3.8/10 applies directly to any address inside the boundary. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.