Kansas City Eviction Risk: Moderate

Housing insecurity runs 36.7% against 14.2% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 31.3% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10.

The severe-burden share is 22%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Set annual rent against average income of $46,426 and the ratio lands at 33%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. 71% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. The poverty rate is 30%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.1/10.

Against the Jackson County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points. The filing record is not thin: 1,304 evictions over 14 years of observation.

Filings peaked in 2015 at 15.7% of renter households. In a typical year about 12.5% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 70% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.