West End Eviction Risk: Moderate , St. Louis

SNAP participation runs 35.6% against 15.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 38%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. The severe-burden share is 27%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

79% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 26.2% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Running hot, regional political climate reads 8.3/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,012 filings here across 13 tracked years. It sits 0.7 points above the St. Louis City average of 4.4.

Filings peaked in 2006 at 14.7% of renter households. 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.

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