Vineyard Eviction Risk: Moderate , Kansas City

22% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. Food insecurity runs 33.7% against 17.8% nationally.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 23.4% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The poverty rate is 24%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.1/10.

It sits 1.2 points above the Jackson County average of 4.2. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,734 filings here across 14 tracked years.

Average gross rent is $1,077, 13% below the Kansas City average. Filings peaked in 2011 at 29.3% 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.

In a typical year about 19.3% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #24,859 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.9/10.

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