Hamilton Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate

At $568 a month, rents sit 43% under what the rest of St. Louis commands. The main counterweight is supply constraint, at 1/10. 25% 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.

Food insecurity affects 37.2% of adults, 19.4 points above the national rate. Running cool is rent-regulation exposure, at 2/10. The poverty rate is 25%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest.

Disability prevalence reaches 46.4% against a 31.5% national average, which raises the odds a reasonable-accommodation request accompanies any dispute. The filing record is not thin: 639 evictions logged in this tract.

The worst year on record was 2007, when filings touched 9.9% of renter households. Recent filings have not receded much: 7.4% in 2017 against a 9.9% peak.

That places it #10 of 69 neighborhoods in St. Louis. For a like-for-like read, Marine Villa and O'Fallon score within a fraction of it.

Because the boundary contains one tract, 5.5/10 is simultaneously the area figure and the address-level figure. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.