Within parent city
100
th percentile
Very High
Census Tract · Ranked #31,049 of 84,120 nationally
Dellwood Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 29189211801 · St. Louis County, MO · pop 3,620 · 42% of tract blocks fall in Dellwood
Census tract 29189211801 covers part of Dellwood, MO, and scores 5.1/10 on landlord eviction risk. Severe burden reaches 56%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
5.1
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 27%
Stable renters 16%
Owners 57%
Tract context
Occupied units1,325
Renter share43.0%
SVI overall0.89
Poverty rate41.5%
Median income$48,367
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
81
th percentile
High
Within state
87
th percentile
High
National
63
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Dellwood and the region
Centroid at 38.7611, -90.2662 · click any tract to drill in
Why Dellwood scores 5.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Dellwood
8.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.2
State political climate
Missouri legislature & governorship
2.1
Economic stress
41.5% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$1,054 rent vs county FMR
3.7
Rent control risk
Inherited from Dellwood
3.1
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.9
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Dellwood
8.4
Housing court bias
Inherited from Dellwood
5.5
How Dellwood compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 89
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 90%Socioeconomic
- 89%Household composition
- 90%Racial/ethnic minority
- 60%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 3%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
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)
- 973Total filings over 8 yrs
- 20.73%Avg annual filing rate
- 25.7%Peak (2006)
- 138Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 47% over the past 8 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 644Total filings 2020-21
- 8.4Avg monthly (observed)
- 8.5Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.99×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Southwest Oregon, OR as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 33.2%Housing insecurity
- 27.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 40.7%Food insecurity
- 41.5%SNAP enrollment
- 22.2%Transit barriers
- 13.8%No health insurance
- 22.4%Frequent mental distress
- 49.1%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Dellwood
Against St. Louis County at 42.0%, 62% of renters here are cost-burdened. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10.
The poverty rate is 42%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 27.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Disability prevalence runs 49.1% against 31.5% nationally.
On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10.
It sits 1.1 points above the St. Louis County average of 4.0. The filing record is not thin: 973 evictions over 8 years of observation. At $1,054 a month, rents run 9% under what the rest of Dellwood commands.
The worst year on record was 2006, when 25.7% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for St. Louis. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.
In a typical year about 20.7% of renter households face a filing.
Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.
Frequently asked
About tract 29189211801
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 29189211801?
Census tract 29189211801 in Dellwood 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 29189211801?
Median gross rent is $1,054/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 62% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 29189211801?
41.5% of residents in tract 29189211801 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,620.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 29189211801?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 89th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 90th, household 89th, minority 90th, housing 60th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 29189211801?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 973 eviction filings across 8 validated years in tract 29189211801 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 20.73% of renter households, peaking at 25.7% in 2006. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 29189211801 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.99× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Southwest Oregon eviction laws, OR), 2020-2021.
Q7
What share of households in tract 29189211801 struggle to pay rent?
About 33.2% 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. 27.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 29189211801 compare to Dellwood overall?
Tract 29189211801 scores 5.1/10, higher than the parent city of Dellwood at 3.7/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Dellwood; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 29189211801 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 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.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Dellwood
Top eight tracts in Dellwood ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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