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North Riverfront Eviction Risk: Moderate , St. Louis

Tract 29510127000 · St. Louis city, MO · pop 1,599 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi

Census tract 29510127000 covers part of the North Riverfront area of St. Louis, MO, and scores 5.6/10 on landlord eviction risk. Against St. Louis City at 41.6%, around two-thirds of renters here are cost-burdened.

Risk score
5.6
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 32% Stable renters 15% Owners 53%
Tract context
Occupied units578
Renter share46.9%
SVI overall0.96
Poverty rate38.9%
Median income$29,750

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In North Riverfront
Moderate
Within parent city
96 th percentile
Rank, 96th percentileLowHigh
#5 of 104 tracts In St. Louis
Very High
Within county
85 th percentile
Rank, 85th percentileLowHigh
#17 of 104 tracts In St. Louis city
High
Within state
98 th percentile
Rank, 98th percentileLowHigh
#29 of 1,654 tracts In Missouri
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across St. Louis and the region

Centroid at 38.7056, -90.2219 · click any tract to drill in

Why North Riverfront scores 5.6

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from St. Louis
7.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
8.3
State political climate
Missouri legislature & governorship
2.1
Economic stress
38.9% poverty · this tract
9.7
Supply constraint
$953 rent vs county FMR
2.8
Rent control risk
Inherited from St. Louis
2.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from St. Louis
5.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from St. Louis
5.0

How North Riverfront compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
North Riverfront risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.6This tracttract 1270004.2St. Louisparent city4.4Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 96

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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)

  • 1,202Total filings over 13 yrs
  • 21.19%Avg annual filing rate
  • 27.2%Peak (2012)
  • 82Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2004 to 2017
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 29510127000
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 13 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 429Total filings 2020-21
  • 5.6Avg monthly (observed)
  • 5.5Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 1.01×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran near baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Southwest Oregon, OR as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in North Riverfront

Food insecurity runs 43.7% against 17.8% nationally. The score leans hardest on economic stress at 9.7/10. The severe-burden share is 31%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

The poverty rate is 39%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Set annual rent against average income of $29,750 and the ratio lands at 38%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Disability prevalence runs 48.4% against 31.5% nationally.

On the high side, regional political climate reads 8.3/10. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10. Against the St. Louis City average of 4.4, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points.

Court records carry 1,202 eviction filings across 13 observed years. The worst year on record was 2012, when 27.2% 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.

In a typical year about 21.2% of renter households face a filing.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 29510127000

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 29510127000?

Census tract 29510127000 in the North Riverfront neighborhood scores 5.6/10 (Moderate 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 29510127000?

Median gross rent is $953/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 68% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 29510127000?

38.9% of residents in tract 29510127000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,599.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 29510127000?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 96th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 98th, household 27th, minority 90th, housing 100th.
Q5

Is tract 29510127000 considered part of North Riverfront?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 29510127000 fall within North Riverfront (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 29510127000?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 1,202 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 29510127000 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 21.19% of renter households, peaking at 27.2% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 29510127000 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 1.01× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings returned near baseline. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Southwest Oregon eviction laws, OR), 2020-2021.
Q8

What share of households in tract 29510127000 struggle to pay rent?

About 35.7% 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. 31.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9

How does tract 29510127000 compare to St. Louis overall?

Tract 29510127000 scores 5.6/10, higher than the parent city of St. Louis at 4.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from St. Louis eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q10

Was tract 29510127000 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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