Wheeler District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Oklahoma City
Tract 40109104500 · Oklahoma County, OK · pop 2,957 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi
Census tract 40109104500 covers part of the Wheeler District area of Oklahoma City, OK, and scores 4.8/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 2,957. SNAP participation runs 36.1% against 15.2% nationally.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Oklahoma City and the region
Centroid at 35.4352, -97.5346 · click any tract to drill in
Why Wheeler District scores 4.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Wheeler District compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 85
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 99%Socioeconomic
- 94%Household composition
- 84%Racial/ethnic minority
- 15%Housing & transportation
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
- 73%Grade C
- 21%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.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Wheeler District. 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.
- 32.7%Housing insecurity
- 21.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 43.4%Food insecurity
- 36.1%SNAP enrollment
- 20.1%Transit barriers
- 34.1%No health insurance
- 20.3%Frequent mental distress
- 49.7%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Wheeler District
Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Disability prevalence runs 49.7% against 31.5% nationally. The poverty rate is 34%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Running hot, economic stress reads 8.5/10. Severe burden reaches 19%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Against the Oklahoma County average of 3.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.0 points. At $977 a month, rents run 14% under what the rest of Oklahoma City commands.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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. On the national scale it lands near the 58th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Statewide the OK average is 3.8, so this tract runs 1.0 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.
44% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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