Rolla Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 29161890900 · Phelps County, MO · pop 4,103
For landlords sizing up Rolla in Phelps County, census tract 29161890900 carries a moderate eviction-risk score of 4.5/10. It lands near the 23rd percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
About 36% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a high level, and 11% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $873 a month against an average household income of $64,586 a year, roughly 16% of income at the averages. Renters make up 23% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Rolla and the region
Centroid at 37.9371, -91.7594 · click any tract to drill in
Why Rolla scores 4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Rolla compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 23
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 30%Socioeconomic
- 67%Household composition
- 19%Racial/ethnic minority
- 11%Housing & transportation
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)
- 114Total filings over 11 yrs
- 2.38%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.6%Peak (2015)
- 7Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
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.
- 8.7%Housing insecurity
- 6.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 9.3%Food insecurity
- 6.6%SNAP enrollment
- 6.5%Transit barriers
- 6.5%No health insurance
- 16.2%Frequent mental distress
- 32.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Rolla
The score leans hardest on tenant organizing strength at 9.6/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Rolla eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Phelps County average of 4.6 and in line with the Missouri statewide average of 4.8. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 8.7% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 6.5% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 23rd percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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Highest-risk tracts in Rolla
Top eight tracts in Rolla ranked by composite eviction-risk score.