Kansas City Eviction Risk: Moderate

Set annual rent against average income of $38,951 and the ratio lands at 32%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. Disability prevalence runs 45.1% against 31.5% nationally.

roughly one in two of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Jackson County average of 43.0%. 15% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The poverty rate is 23%. 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. Food insecurity runs 27.9% against 17.8% nationally.

At $1,040 a month, rents run 16% under what the rest of Kansas City commands. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 669 filings here across 14 tracked years.

The worst year on record was 2017, when 10.8% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 8.5% of renter households face a filing.

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