Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally
South Town Fork Creek Eviction Risk: Moderate , Kansas City
Tract 29095008800 · Jackson County, MO · pop 3,267 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
With a score of 5.4/10, tract 29095008800 in the South Town Fork Creek area of Kansas City, MO reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,267. SNAP participation runs 41.0% against 15.2% nationally.
Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 18%
Stable renters 22%
Owners 60%
Tract context
Occupied units1,401
Renter share40.5%
SVI overall0.92
Poverty rate36.4%
Median income$42,844
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
85
th percentile
High
Within county
98
th percentile
Very High
Within state
96
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Kansas City and the region
Centroid at 39.0040, -94.5463 · click any tract to drill in
Why South Town Fork Creek 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
36.4% poverty · this tract
9.1
Supply constraint
$1,193 rent vs county FMR
3.9
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 South Town Fork Creek compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 92
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 95%Socioeconomic
- 88%Household composition
- 91%Racial/ethnic minority
- 63%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
- 7%Grade B
- 12%Grade C
- 54%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)
- 1,574Total filings over 14 yrs
- 17.87%Avg annual filing rate
- 25.9%Peak (2005)
- 94Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 20% over the past 14 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 565Total filings 2020-21
- 7.3Avg monthly (observed)
- 7.9Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.93×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below 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 South Town Fork Creek. 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.
- 34.2%Housing insecurity
- 28.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 41.7%Food insecurity
- 41.0%SNAP enrollment
- 22.2%Transit barriers
- 14.9%No health insurance
- 23.1%Frequent mental distress
- 50.3%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in South Town Fork Creek
The score leans hardest on economic stress at 9.1/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 28.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.
The severe-burden share is 26%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The poverty rate is 36%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $42,844, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10.
On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. Against the Jackson County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points.
Court records carry 1,574 eviction filings across 14 observed years. The worst year on record was 2005, when 25.9% 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. In a typical year about 17.9% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 70% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
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 29095008800
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 29095008800?
Census tract 29095008800 in the South Town Fork Creek 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 29095008800?
Median gross rent is $1,193/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 44% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 29095008800?
36.4% of residents in tract 29095008800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,267.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 29095008800?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 92th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 95th, household 88th, minority 91th, housing 63th.
Q5
Is tract 29095008800 considered part of South Town Fork Creek?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 29095008800 fall within South Town Fork Creek (neighborhood centroid within 0.8 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 29095008800?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 1,574 eviction filings across 14 validated years in tract 29095008800 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 17.87% of renter households, peaking at 25.9% in 2005. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 29095008800 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.93× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Kansas City eviction risk, MO), 2020-2021.
Q8
What share of households in tract 29095008800 struggle to pay rent?
About 34.2% 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. 28.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 29095008800 compare to Kansas City overall?
Tract 29095008800 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 29095008800 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. 54% 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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