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Census Tract · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally

Kirkwood Eviction Risk: Lower

Tract 29189218402 · St. Louis County, MO · pop 4,762

With a score of 3/10, tract 29189218402 in Kirkwood, MO reads lower for landlord eviction risk. The voucher gap is 42.0%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 4% Stable renters 9% Owners 87%
Tract context
Occupied units1,762
Renter share13.6%
SVI overall0.09
Poverty rate2.0%
Median income$139,732

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within parent city
67 th percentile
Rank, 67th percentileLowHigh
#3 of 7 tracts In Kirkwood
Elevated
Within county
4 th percentile
Rank, 4th percentileLowHigh
#227 of 236 tracts In St. Louis County
Very Low
Within state
33 th percentile
Rank, 33rd percentileLowHigh
#1,113 of 1,654 tracts In Missouri
Low
National
20 th percentile
Rank, 20th percentileLowHigh
#67,219 of 84,120 tracts In U.S.
Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across Kirkwood and the region

Centroid at 38.5887, -90.4206 · click any tract to drill in

Why Kirkwood scores 3

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Kirkwood
6.6
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.2
State political climate
Missouri legislature & governorship
2.1
Economic stress
2.0% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$1,725 rent vs county FMR
9.2
Rent control risk
Inherited from Kirkwood
6.1
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Kirkwood
5.2
Housing court bias
Inherited from Kirkwood
4.7

How Kirkwood compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Kirkwood risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.0This tracttract 2184023.4Kirkwoodparent city4.0Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 9

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

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)

  • 35Total filings over 8 yrs
  • 2.18%Avg annual filing rate
  • 4.2%Peak (2012)
  • 6Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2003 to 2017
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 29189218402
Filings climbed 20% over the past 8 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 10Total filings 2020-21
  • 0.1Avg monthly (observed)
  • 0.5Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.28×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

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 Kirkwood

The score leans hardest on supply constraint at 9.2/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1/10.

30% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly below the St. Louis County average of 42.0%. Average gross rent is $1,725, 28% above the Kirkwood average.

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.5/10. Food insecurity runs 5.5% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 3.7% against 15.2% nationally.

It sits 1.0 points below the St. Louis County average of 4.0. The filing record is not thin: 35 evictions over 8 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2012, when 4.2% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 2.2% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

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 29189218402

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 29189218402?

Census tract 29189218402 in Kirkwood scores 3/10 (Lower 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 29189218402?

Median gross rent is $1,725/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 30% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 29189218402?

2.0% of residents in tract 29189218402 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,762.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 29189218402?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 9th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 1th, household 16th, minority 23th, housing 41th.
Q5

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 29189218402?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 35 eviction filings across 8 validated years in tract 29189218402 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.18% of renter households, peaking at 4.2% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6

Did eviction filings in tract 29189218402 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.28× 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.
Q7

What share of households in tract 29189218402 struggle to pay rent?

About 6.1% 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. 4.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 29189218402 compare to Kirkwood overall?

Tract 29189218402 scores 3/10, lower than the parent city of Kirkwood at 3.4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Kirkwood eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Kirkwood

Top eight tracts in Kirkwood ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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