Varsity neighborhood Eviction Risk: Lower , University City
Tract 29189215901 · St. Louis County, MO · pop 2,794 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi
Tract 29189215901 sits in the Varsity neighborhood area of University City eviction risk, MO, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3.1/10. Against St. Louis County at 42.0%, 9% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across University City and the region
Centroid at 38.6742, -90.3293 · click any tract to drill in
Why Varsity neighborhood scores 3.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Varsity neighborhood compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 12
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 33%Socioeconomic
- 5%Household composition
- 77%Racial/ethnic minority
- 8%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 15%Grade A
- 45%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.
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
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 110Total filings 2020-21
- 1.4Avg monthly (observed)
- 2.2Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.64×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Southwest Oregon, OR as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Varsity neighborhood. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 11.9%Housing insecurity
- 8.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 11.2%Food insecurity
- 8.4%SNAP enrollment
- 7.2%Transit barriers
- 5.6%No health insurance
- 14.5%Frequent mental distress
- 29.3%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Varsity neighborhood
Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1/10. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.5/10. The voucher gap is 27.2%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.
On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Average gross rent is $1,545, 17% above the University City average.
Against the St. Louis County average of 4.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.9 points. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. That is riskier than roughly 22% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
At 23% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 2%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. Annual rent works out to 25% of average household income of $75,042.
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.
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Highest-risk tracts in University City
Top eight tracts in University City ranked by composite eviction-risk score.