Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #39,308 of 84,120 nationally
Lemay Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 29189220300 · St. Louis County, MO · pop 2,047 · 8% of tract blocks fall in Lemay
29189220300 is a census tract in Lemay, MO. It scores 4.6/10 for landlords. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 8.5/10.
Risk score
4.6
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 27%
Stable renters 40%
Owners 33%
Tract context
Occupied units811
Renter share66.8%
SVI overall0.91
Poverty rate14.7%
Median income$43,882
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
71
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
78
th percentile
High
National
53
th percentile
Moderate
Geographic context
Risk heat across Lemay and the region
Centroid at 38.5042, -90.2820 · click any tract to drill in
Why Lemay scores 4.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Lemay
8.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.2
State political climate
Missouri legislature & governorship
2.1
Economic stress
14.7% poverty · this tract
3.7
Supply constraint
$983 rent vs county FMR
3.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from Lemay
3.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Lemay
4.9
Housing court bias
Inherited from Lemay
5.0
How Lemay compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 91
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 73%Socioeconomic
- 98%Household composition
- 42%Racial/ethnic minority
- 92%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
- 0%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)
- 217Total filings over 8 yrs
- 4.78%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.7%Peak (2013)
- 29Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 21% over the past 8 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 299Total filings 2020-21
- 3.9Avg monthly (observed)
- 2.5Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.56×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above 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.
- 15.8%Housing insecurity
- 11.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 17.6%Food insecurity
- 14.7%SNAP enrollment
- 10.6%Transit barriers
- 10.2%No health insurance
- 20.2%Frequent mental distress
- 39.6%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Lemay
Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10. 21% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
This is renter territory: 67% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.1/10. Court records carry 217 eviction filings across 8 observed years.
At $983 a month, rents run 12% over what the rest of Lemay commands. Filings peaked in 2013 at 6.7% of renter households.
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 4.8% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 53% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 9.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 29189220300
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 29189220300?
Census tract 29189220300 in Lemay scores 4.6/10 (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 29189220300?
Median gross rent is $983/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 41% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 29189220300?
14.7% of residents in tract 29189220300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,047.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 29189220300?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 91th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 73th, household 98th, minority 42th, housing 92th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 29189220300?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 217 eviction filings across 8 validated years in tract 29189220300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.78% of renter households, peaking at 6.7% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 29189220300 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 1.56× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran above pre-pandemic norms. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Southwest Oregon eviction laws, OR), 2020-2021.
Q7
What share of households in tract 29189220300 struggle to pay rent?
About 15.8% 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. 11.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 29189220300 compare to Lemay overall?
Tract 29189220300 scores 4.6/10, higher than the parent city of Lemay at 3.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Lemay eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 29189220300 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 Lemay
Top eight tracts in Lemay ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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