Within parent city
0
th percentile
Very Low
Census Tract · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Valley Park Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 29189217942 · St. Louis County, MO · pop 5,353 · 17% of tract blocks fall in Valley Park
Tract 29189217942 sits in Valley Park, MO, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3/10. Population here is 5,353. The voucher gap is 38.3%: 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 5%
Stable renters 11%
Owners 84%
Tract context
Occupied units2,468
Renter share15.8%
SVI overall0.08
Poverty rate2.0%
Median income$111,346
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
15
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
33
th percentile
Low
National
20
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Valley Park and the region
Centroid at 38.5590, -90.5141 · click any tract to drill in
Why Valley Park scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Valley Park
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
$1,680 rent vs county FMR
8.8
Rent control risk
Inherited from Valley Park
6.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.9
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Valley Park
9.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Valley Park
6.0
How Valley Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 8
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 4%Socioeconomic
- 29%Household composition
- 20%Racial/ethnic minority
- 21%Housing & transportation
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)
- 88Total filings over 8 yrs
- 7.12%Avg annual filing rate
- 17.7%Peak (2006)
- 6Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 45% over the past 8 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 65Total filings 2020-21
- 0.8Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.9Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.98×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below 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.
- 6.4%Housing insecurity
- 4.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 5.9%Food insecurity
- 3.8%SNAP enrollment
- 4.4%Transit barriers
- 4.6%No health insurance
- 13.8%Frequent mental distress
- 25.8%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Valley Park
The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1/10.
Running hot, supply constraint reads 8.8/10. Cost burden runs 32% here against 42.0% across St. Louis County. Food insecurity runs 5.9% against 17.8% nationally.
SNAP participation runs 3.8% against 15.2% nationally. Against the St. Louis County average of 4.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points.
At $1,680 a month, rents run 16% over what the rest of Valley Park commands. Court records carry 88 eviction filings across 8 observed years. The worst year on record was 2006, when 17.7% of renter households were served.
In a typical year about 7.1% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
Only 16% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.8/10.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 29189217942
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 29189217942?
Census tract 29189217942 in Valley Park 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 29189217942?
Median gross rent is $1,680/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 32% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 29189217942?
2.0% of residents in tract 29189217942 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,353.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 29189217942?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 8th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 4th, household 29th, minority 20th, housing 21th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 29189217942?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 88 eviction filings across 8 validated years in tract 29189217942 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 7.12% of renter households, peaking at 17.7% in 2006. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 29189217942 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.98× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Southwest Oregon eviction laws, OR), 2020-2021.
Q7
What share of households in tract 29189217942 struggle to pay rent?
About 6.4% 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. 4.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 29189217942 compare to Valley Park overall?
Tract 29189217942 scores 3/10, lower than the parent city of Valley Park at 4.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Valley Park; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Valley Park
Top eight tracts in Valley Park ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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