Baden Eviction Risk: Moderate , St. Louis

What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10. SNAP participation runs 48.8% against 15.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 51%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 32.1% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $35,909, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. On the high side, regional political climate reads 8.3/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10. Against St. Louis City at 41.6%, about half of renters here are cost-burdened. Against the St. Louis City average of 4.4, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 665 filings here across 13 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2012, when 14.3% of renter households were served.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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.

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