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Wells Goodfellow Eviction Risk: Moderate , St. Louis

Tract 29510106300 · St. Louis city, MO · pop 1,230 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi

Census tract 29510106300 covers part of the Wells Goodfellow area of St. Louis, MO, and scores 5.1/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 1,230. SNAP participation runs 38.5% against 15.2% nationally.

Risk score
5.1
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 21% Stable renters 51% Owners 28%
Tract context
Occupied units590
Renter share71.2%
SVI overall0.82
Poverty rate24.9%
Median income$40,000

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 2 tracts In Wells Goodfellow
Very Low
Within parent city
65 th percentile
Rank, 65th percentileLowHigh
#37 of 104 tracts In St. Louis
Elevated
Within county
61 th percentile
Rank, 61st percentileLowHigh
#41 of 104 tracts In St. Louis city
Elevated
Within state
87 th percentile
Rank, 87th percentileLowHigh
#209 of 1,654 tracts In Missouri
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across St. Louis and the region

Centroid at 38.6778, -90.2715 · click any tract to drill in

Why Wells Goodfellow scores 5.1

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
24.9% poverty · this tract
6.2
Supply constraint
$812 rent vs county FMR
1.7
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 Wells Goodfellow compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Wells Goodfellow risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.1This tracttract 1063004.2St. Louisparent city4.4Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 82

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)

  • 762Total filings over 13 yrs
  • 16.29%Avg annual filing rate
  • 20.0%Peak (2007)
  • 41Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2004 to 2017
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 29510106300
Filings dropped 27% over the past 13 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 170Total filings 2020-21
  • 2.2Avg monthly (observed)
  • 3.8Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.58×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Southwest Oregon, OR as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Wells Goodfellow. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

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 Wells Goodfellow

Food insecurity runs 40.6% against 17.8% nationally. Cost burden runs 29% here against 41.6% across St. Louis City. What pushes it up most is regional political climate at 8.3/10.

This is renter territory: 71% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. The severe-burden share is 20%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.7/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10. The poverty rate is 25%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

At $812 a month, rents run 19% under what the rest of St. Louis commands. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 762 filings here across 13 tracked years.

It sits 0.7 points above the St. Louis City average of 4.4. Filings peaked in 2007 at 20.0% of renter households.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 29510106300

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 29510106300?

Census tract 29510106300 in the Wells Goodfellow neighborhood scores 5.1/10 (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 29510106300?

Median gross rent is $812/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 29% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 29510106300?

24.9% of residents in tract 29510106300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,230.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 29510106300?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 82th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 95th, household 54th, minority 100th, housing 44th.
Q5

Is tract 29510106300 considered part of Wells Goodfellow?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 29510106300 fall within Wells Goodfellow (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 29510106300?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 762 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 29510106300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 16.29% of renter households, peaking at 20.0% in 2007. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 29510106300 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.58× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings dropped sharply, likely a moratorium effect. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Southwest Oregon eviction laws, OR), 2020-2021.
Q8

What share of households in tract 29510106300 struggle to pay rent?

About 34.1% 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. 26.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9

How does tract 29510106300 compare to St. Louis overall?

Tract 29510106300 scores 5.1/10, 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 29510106300 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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