Barnum West Eviction Risk: Elevated , Denver
Tract 08031000902 · Denver County, CO · pop 5,107 · neighborhood within 0.0 mi
08031000902 is a census tract in the Barnum West area of Denver, CO. It scores 6.6/10 for landlords. Severe burden reaches 31%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Denver and the region
Centroid at 39.7185, -105.0465 · click any tract to drill in
Why Barnum West scores 6.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Barnum West compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 62
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 83%Socioeconomic
- 42%Household composition
- 84%Racial/ethnic minority
- 22%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 48%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)
- 154Total filings over 8 yrs
- 3.80%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.2%Peak (2010)
- 10Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
What drives eviction risk in Barnum West
What pushes it up most is local political climate at 9/10. Running hot, eviction-process difficulty reads 8.5/10. Running cool, economic stress reads 1.6/10.
Adults with no health insurance runs 25.3% against 11.3% nationally. 40% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Denver County average of 45.4%. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 154 filings here across 8 tracked years.
Filings peaked in 2010 at 6.2% of renter households. 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 3.8% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #14,906 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 23% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.6/10. Statewide the CO average is 4.9, so this tract runs 1.7 points hotter.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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