Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Wentzville Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 29183312193 · St. Charles County, MO · pop 8,436 · 83% of tract blocks fall in Wentzville
With a score of 3/10, tract 29183312193 in Wentzville, MO reads lower for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 8,436 residents. 42% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 7%
Stable renters 3%
Owners 90%
Tract context
Occupied units2,717
Renter share10.4%
SVI overall0.15
Poverty rate2.5%
Median income$127,965
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
24
th percentile
Low
Within state
33
th percentile
Low
National
20
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Wentzville and the region
Centroid at 38.7846, -90.8405 · click any tract to drill in
Why Wentzville scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Wentzville
4.7
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.1
State political climate
Missouri legislature & governorship
2.1
Economic stress
2.5% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$1,354 rent vs county FMR
6.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from Wentzville
6.1
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.6
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Wentzville
3.8
Housing court bias
Inherited from Wentzville
4.5
How Wentzville compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 15
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 17%Socioeconomic
- 14%Household composition
- 18%Racial/ethnic minority
- 35%Housing & transportation
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)
- 95Total filings over 11 yrs
- 11.72%Avg annual filing rate
- 35.2%Peak (2008)
- 5Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 150% over the past 11 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
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.
- 9.0%Housing insecurity
- 6.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 8.3%Food insecurity
- 5.7%SNAP enrollment
- 5.9%Transit barriers
- 6.0%No health insurance
- 16.5%Frequent mental distress
- 28.9%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Wentzville
roughly two in three of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well clear of the St. Charles County average of 36.4%. The clearest offset is economic stress at 1/10.
Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.6/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 2.1/10.
Food insecurity runs 8.3% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 5.7% against 15.2% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 95 evictions over 11 years of observation.
The worst year on record was 2008, when 35.2% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 11.7% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
At 10% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Social vulnerability reads 2.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Against average income of $127,965, annual rent is just 13%. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 29183312193
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 29183312193?
Census tract 29183312193 in Wentzville scores 3/10 (Lower tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 29183312193?
Median gross rent is $1,354/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 68% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 29183312193?
2.5% of residents in tract 29183312193 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 8,436.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 29183312193?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 15th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 17th, household 14th, minority 18th, housing 35th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 29183312193?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 95 eviction filings across 11 validated years in tract 29183312193 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 11.72% of renter households, peaking at 35.2% in 2008. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 29183312193 struggle to pay rent?
About 9.0% 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. 6.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 29183312193 compare to Wentzville overall?
Tract 29183312193 scores 3/10, right in line with the parent city of Wentzville at 3.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Wentzville eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Wentzville
Top eight tracts in Wentzville ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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