Covenant Blu Grand Center Eviction Risk: Moderate

33% 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. This is a renter market: 91% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Annualized rent equals 34% of average household income here, past the 30% affordability line, which compresses the margin any screening standard has to work with. The poverty rate is 31%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure, at 2/10.

Running hot is economic stress at 7.7/10. Court records for this tract carry 757 eviction filings. The worst year on record was 2005, when filings touched 8.7% of renter households.

The most recent observed rate, 3.1% in 2017, is well off that peak. Among the 69 mapped neighborhoods of St. Louis, it ranks #1 by risk, the upper third.

For a like-for-like read, Saint Louis Place and Peabody-Darst-Webbe score within a fraction of it. Average gross rent runs $1,021, close to the St. Louis average.

One tract means one number: 5.6/10 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.