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Neighborhood · Ranked #9,043 of 84,120 nationally

Sunnyside Eviction Risk: Elevated , Denver

Tract 08031000202 · Denver County, CO · pop 3,996 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi

Census tract 08031000202 covers part of the Sunnyside area of Denver, CO, and scores 7.8/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,996 residents. The severe-burden share is 34%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Risk score
7.8
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 16% Stable renters 23% Owners 61%
Tract context
Occupied units1,903
Renter share38.1%
SVI overall0.68
Poverty rate20.7%
Median income$92,621

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 3 tracts In Sunnyside
Very High
Within parent city
77 th percentile
Rank, 77th percentileLowHigh
#41 of 178 tracts In Denver
High
Within county
78 th percentile
Rank, 78th percentileLowHigh
#40 of 178 tracts In Denver County
High
Within state
96 th percentile
Rank, 96th percentileLowHigh
#61 of 1,447 tracts In Colorado
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Denver and the region

Centroid at 39.7801, -105.0121 · click any tract to drill in

Why Sunnyside scores 7.8

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Denver
9.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
8.1
State political climate
Colorado legislature & governorship
4.7
Economic stress
20.7% poverty · this tract
5.2
Supply constraint
$1,413 rent vs county FMR
1.6
Rent control risk
Inherited from Denver
7.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
8.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Denver
8.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Denver
7.5

How Sunnyside compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Sunnyside risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 7.87.8This tracttract 000202Denver: 6.86.8Denverparent cityCounty: 6.76.7Countyavg tract in countyState: 4.94.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 68

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

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)

  • 275Total filings over 8 yrs
  • 4.97%Avg annual filing rate
  • 6.8%Peak (2011)
  • 27Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2009 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 080310002022009: 39 filings (6.04/100 renter HHs)2010: 29 filings (5.03/100 renter HHs)2011: 48 filings (6.77/100 renter HHs)2012: 39 filings (5.50/100 renter HHs)2013: 35 filings (4.94/100 renter HHs)2014: 27 filings (3.81/100 renter HHs)2015: 31 filings (4.37/100 renter HHs)2016: 27 filings (3.33/100 renter HHs)
Filings dropped 31% over the past 8 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Sunnyside. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Sunnyside

The dominant input is local political climate at 9/10. On the high side, eviction-process difficulty reads 8.5/10.

Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.6/10. At $1,413 a month, rents run 23% under what the rest of Denver commands. The poverty rate is 21%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Against the Denver County average of 6.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. The filing record is not thin: 275 evictions over 8 years of observation.

Cost burden runs 41% here against 45.4% across Denver County. The worst year on record was 2011, when 6.8% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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.

In a typical year about 5.0% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #9,043 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 7.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

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 08031000202

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 08031000202?

Census tract 08031000202 in the Sunnyside neighborhood scores 7.8/10 (Elevated 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 08031000202?

Median gross rent is $1,413/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 41% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 08031000202?

20.7% of residents in tract 08031000202 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,996.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 08031000202?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 68th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 65th, household 82th, minority 66th, housing 45th.
Q5

Is tract 08031000202 considered part of Sunnyside?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 08031000202 fall within Sunnyside (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 08031000202?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 275 eviction filings across 8 validated years in tract 08031000202 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.97% of renter households, peaking at 6.8% in 2011. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

How does tract 08031000202 compare to Denver overall?

Tract 08031000202 scores 7.8/10, higher than the parent city of Denver at 6.8/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Denver eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 08031000202 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 59% 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.
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Top eight tracts in Denver ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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