Neighborhood · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally

West Blue Valley Eviction Risk: Moderate , Kansas City

Tract 29095002200 · Jackson County, MO · pop 3,028 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi

With a score of 5.4/10, tract 29095002200 in the West Blue Valley area of Kansas City, MO reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. The severe-burden share is 37%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Risk score

5.4

Moderate

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 27% Stable renters 33% Owners 40%

Tract context

Occupied units1,298

Renter share59.9%

SVI overall0.97

Poverty rate32.6%

Median income$21,128

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Kansas City and the region

Centroid at 39.0907, -94.5212 · click any tract to drill in

Why West Blue Valley scores 5.4

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly

Local political climate

Inherited from Kansas City

6.0

Regional political climate

2024 county presidential margin

6.1

State political climate

Missouri legislature & governorship

2.1

Economic stress

32.6% poverty · this tract

8.2

Supply constraint

$540 rent vs county FMR

1.0

Rent control risk

Inherited from Kansas City

1.5

Eviction process difficulty

State law sets the calendar

4.0

Tenant organizing strength

Inherited from Kansas City

4.5

Housing court bias

Inherited from Kansas City

4.0

How West Blue Valley compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 97

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

93%Socioeconomic
98%Household composition
85%Racial/ethnic minority
84%Housing & transportation

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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
8%Grade C
82%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.

Eviction filings

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)

757Total filings over 14 yrs
7.69%Avg annual filing rate
10.2%Peak (2005)
69Filings in 2017 (latest validated)

Filings by year 2003 to 2017

Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 14 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

317Total filings 2020-21
4.1Avg monthly (observed)
2.7Pre-pandemic baseline
1.55×Ratio to baseline

Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01

Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Kansas City, MO as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress

Eviction-adjacent indicators

Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.

34.9%Housing insecurity
25.0%Utility-shutoff threat
43.9%Food insecurity
36.8%SNAP enrollment
22.5%Transit barriers
29.2%No health insurance
23.2%Frequent mental distress
52.2%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in West Blue Valley

Average gross rent is $540, 56% below the Kansas City average. SNAP participation runs 36.8% against 15.2% nationally.

Disability prevalence runs 52.2% against 31.5% nationally. The main counterweight is supply constraint at 1/10. The poverty rate is 33%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. Against the Jackson County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 757 filings here across 14 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2005 at 10.2% 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 7.7% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #24,859 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.

Frequently asked

About tract 29095002200

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 29095002200?

Census tract 29095002200 in the West Blue Valley neighborhood scores 5.4/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

What is the average rent in tract 29095002200?

Median gross rent is $540/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 46% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 29095002200?

32.6% of residents in tract 29095002200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,028.

How socially vulnerable is tract 29095002200?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 97th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 93th, household 98th, minority 85th, housing 84th.

Is tract 29095002200 considered part of West Blue Valley?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 29095002200 fall within West Blue Valley (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 29095002200?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 757 eviction filings across 14 validated years in tract 29095002200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 7.69% of renter households, peaking at 10.2% in 2005. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.

Did eviction filings in tract 29095002200 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 1.55× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran above pre-pandemic norms. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Kansas City eviction risk, MO), 2020-2021.

What share of households in tract 29095002200 struggle to pay rent?

About 34.9% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 25.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 29095002200 compare to Kansas City overall?

Tract 29095002200 scores 5.4/10, higher than the parent city of Kansas City at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Kansas City eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.

Q10

Was tract 29095002200 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 82% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.

Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Kansas City

Top eight tracts in Kansas City ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

Eviction Lab tract-level court records (2000-2018) and Eviction Tracking System, Princeton University. Open Data Commons Attribution license. evictionlab.org