Within parent city
0
th percentile
Very Low
Census Tract · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Richmond Heights Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 29189216600 · St. Louis County, MO · pop 2,283 · 98% of tract blocks fall in Richmond Heights
With a score of 3/10, tract 29189216600 in Richmond Heights, MO reads lower for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 2,283. Cost burden runs 23% here against 42.0% across St. Louis County.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 11%
Stable renters 37%
Owners 52%
Tract context
Occupied units1,141
Renter share48.5%
SVI overall0.13
Poverty rate2.1%
Median income$140,563
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
3
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
33
th percentile
Low
National
20
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Richmond Heights and the region
Centroid at 38.6343, -90.3492 · click any tract to drill in
Why Richmond Heights scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Richmond Heights
8.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.2
State political climate
Missouri legislature & governorship
2.1
Economic stress
2.1% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$1,906 rent vs county FMR
10.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Richmond Heights
3.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.8
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Richmond Heights
9.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Richmond Heights
3.3
How Richmond Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 13
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 3%Socioeconomic
- 11%Household composition
- 35%Racial/ethnic minority
- 57%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: A: Best
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 63%Grade A
- 23%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)
- 61Total filings over 8 yrs
- 2.60%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.2%Peak (2003)
- 2Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 93% over the past 8 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 31Total filings 2020-21
- 0.4Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.2Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.72×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.
- 4.8%Housing insecurity
- 3.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 4.1%Food insecurity
- 2.3%SNAP enrollment
- 3.4%Transit barriers
- 3.5%No health insurance
- 12.2%Frequent mental distress
- 21.7%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Richmond Heights
The score leans hardest on supply constraint at 10/10. The voucher gap is 56.9%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.
On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1/10.
SNAP participation runs 2.3% against 15.2% nationally. At $1,906 a month, rents run 22% over what the rest of Richmond Heights commands. Against the St. Louis County average of 4.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points.
Court records carry 61 eviction filings across 8 observed years. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Filings peaked in 2003 at 6.2% of renter households.
This ground was mapped A ("Best") 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 2.6% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
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 29189216600
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 29189216600?
Census tract 29189216600 in Richmond Heights 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 29189216600?
Median gross rent is $1,906/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 23% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 29189216600?
2.1% of residents in tract 29189216600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,283.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 29189216600?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 13th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 3th, household 11th, minority 35th, housing 57th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 29189216600?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 61 eviction filings across 8 validated years in tract 29189216600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.60% of renter households, peaking at 6.2% in 2003. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 29189216600 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 1.72× 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 29189216600 struggle to pay rent?
About 4.8% 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. 3.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 29189216600 compare to Richmond Heights overall?
Tract 29189216600 scores 3/10, lower than the parent city of Richmond Heights at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Richmond Heights; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 29189216600 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of A. 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 Richmond Heights
Top eight tracts in Richmond Heights ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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