Kansas City Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 29165030214 · Platte County, MO · pop 2,780
Census tract 29165030214 covers part of Kansas City, MO, and scores 5.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,780 residents. 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 39.2394, -94.6632 · 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: 25
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 46%Socioeconomic
- 82%Household composition
- 33%Racial/ethnic minority
- 2%Housing & transportation
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.
- 17.7%Housing insecurity
- 13.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 21.3%Food insecurity
- 19.1%SNAP enrollment
- 12.5%Transit barriers
- 11.7%No health insurance
- 20.3%Frequent mental distress
- 39.5%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Kansas City
The poverty rate is 27%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Against the Platte County average of 3.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.1/10.
At $1,385 a month, rents run 12% over what the rest of Kansas City commands. On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
Statute speed, court posture and rent-regulation exposure are inherited from Kansas City eviction risk rather than measured on these blocks; the economic and supply components are the tract-level part of the score. Social vulnerability reads 3.3/10 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 housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. around a third of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent. Annual rent works out to 26% of average household income of $65,119.
28% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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