Maryland Heights Eviction Risk: Lower

Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1.3/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.5/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.4/10.

Against the St. Louis County average of 4.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points. The filing record is not thin: 269 evictions over 8 years of observation. SNAP participation runs 6.9% against 15.2% nationally.

Food insecurity runs 9.9% against 17.8% nationally. At $1,144 a month, rents run 13% under what the rest of Maryland Heights commands.

The worst year on record was 2012, when 8.0% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 6.2% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

At 22% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Social vulnerability reads 2.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 15% of average household income of $94,145, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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.