Southmoreland Eviction Risk: Moderate , Kansas City

Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10. 22% 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. The poverty rate is 29%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Against Jackson County at 43.0%, about half of renters here are cost-burdened.

Running cool, state political climate reads 2.1/10. It sits 1.2 points above the Jackson County average of 4.2.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 597 filings here across 14 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2003, when 9.7% of renter households were served.

This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 5.7% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 70% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the MO average is 3.8, so this tract runs 1.6 points hotter.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.