Pendleton Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Kansas City

Average gross rent is $863, 30% below the Kansas City average. The poverty rate is 32%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. This is renter territory: 70% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

18% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. SNAP participation runs 29.7% against 15.2% nationally.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 21.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Against the Jackson County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 996 filings here across 14 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2010, when 10.3% of renter households were served.

This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Greater Kansas City. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

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.