Marlborough Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate

The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure, at 1.5/10. Scores across the 4 constituent tracts range from 3.2 to 5.4. A 2.2-point internal spread means block-level underwriting beats area-level here.

The severe-burden share is 21%. Those renters are past the 50% mark, and they miss rent for reasons that have nothing to do with willingness to pay. 20.0% 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.

Filings are well documented here: 3,537 across 4 observed tracts. The poverty rate is 17%, which shows up in this model as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Food insecurity affects 29.1% of adults, 11.3 points above the national rate.

The worst year on record was 2017, when filings touched 24.7% of renter households. Among the 66 mapped neighborhoods of Kansas City, it ranks #41 by risk, the middle third.

Judgments average 6.1% of renter households a year, the share of filings that actually convert to an order. Average gross rent runs $1,239, close to the Kansas City average. Annual rent works out to 28% of average household income of $53,276.

55% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

Underwrite the address, not the area: with 2.2 points between its best and worst tract, the per-tract table below is the operative number. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.