Sunnyside Eviction Risk: Moderate , Denver
Tract 08031000401 · Denver County, CO · pop 3,362 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Census tract 08031000401 covers part of the Sunnyside area of Denver, CO, and scores 5.9/10 on landlord eviction risk. Cost burden runs about a quarter here against 45.4% across Denver County.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Denver and the region
Centroid at 39.7729, -105.0183 · click any tract to drill in
Why Sunnyside scores 5.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Sunnyside compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 30
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 37%Socioeconomic
- 5%Household composition
- 61%Racial/ethnic minority
- 52%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
- 100%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
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 136Total filings over 8 yrs
- 2.82%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.0%Peak (2009)
- 13Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Sunnyside. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Sunnyside
What pushes it up most is local political climate at 9/10. On the high side, eviction-process difficulty reads 8.5/10. Running hot, regional political climate reads 8.1/10.
The severe-burden share is 14%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 136 filings here across 8 tracked years. At $1,551 a month, rents run 15% under what the rest of Denver commands.
Against the Denver County average of 6.7, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.8 points. The worst year on record was 2009, when 5.0% of renter households were served.
This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Denver. 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 2.8% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 77% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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