Kansas City Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 29095017500 · Jackson County, MO · pop 2,146
With a score of 5.4/10, tract 29095017500 in Kansas City, MO reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Kansas City and the region
Centroid at 39.0129, -94.5054 · click any tract to drill in
Why Kansas City scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Kansas City compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 62
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 70%Socioeconomic
- 20%Household composition
- 76%Racial/ethnic minority
- 62%Housing & transportation
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
- 0%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 1%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.
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)
- 580Total filings over 14 yrs
- 16.56%Avg annual filing rate
- 25.1%Peak (2012)
- 29Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 126Total filings 2020-21
- 1.6Avg monthly (observed)
- 4.5Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.36×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Kansas City, MO as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 21.2%Housing insecurity
- 16.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 24.6%Food insecurity
- 21.1%SNAP enrollment
- 13.6%Transit barriers
- 11.4%No health insurance
- 20.4%Frequent mental distress
- 41.8%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Kansas City
The severe-burden share is 23%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The poverty rate is 31%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10.
Average gross rent is $929, 25% below the Kansas City average. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.9/10.
It sits 1.2 points above the Jackson County average of 4.2. The filing record is not thin: 580 evictions over 14 years of observation.
Inability to pay a utility bill runs 16.7% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Housing insecurity runs 21.2% against 14.2% nationally. Filings peaked in 2012 at 25.1% of renter households.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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