Compton Heights Eviction Risk: Lower

Well under the midpoint is rent-regulation exposure, at 2/10. Cost burden runs 35% against 28.2% citywide, putting Compton Heights 6.6% over its own city.

15% are severely burdened, paying half their income or more in rent. That cohort has no absorption capacity for an unexpected bill, and it is where non-payment filings originate. Average gross rent is $1,166, 17% above the St. Louis average of $997.

Court records for this tract carry 730 eviction filings. SNAP participation is 4.9% of households versus 15.2% nationally. The worst year on record was 2004, when filings touched 8.5% of renter households.

4.9% of adults carry no health insurance against 11.3% nationally, a common route into sudden unpayable debt. The most recent observed rate, 3.6% in 2017, is well off that peak. Among the 69 mapped neighborhoods of St. Louis, it ranks #59 by risk, the lower third.

For a like-for-like read, Clifton Heights and Lindenwood Park score within a fraction of it. Rent takes 13% of average household income, comfortably inside the 30% line and unusually low for a rental sub-market.

One tract means one number: 3/10 applies directly to any address inside the boundary. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.