Kansas City Eviction Risk: Moderate

Severe burden reaches 17%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Against the Clay County average of 3.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points.

Running hot, court filing pressure reads 7.9/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.1/10. At $989 a month, rents run 20% under what the rest of Kansas City commands.

The poverty rate is 20%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 797 filings here across 9 tracked years.

Filings peaked in 2012 at 10.8% of renter households. In a typical year about 8.5% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 8.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the MO average is 3.8, so this tract runs 1.6 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

Rent takes 30% or more of income for 40% of renters.

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