Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #16,032 of 84,120 nationally
Alamo Placita Eviction Risk: Elevated , Denver
Tract 08031002801 · Denver County, CO · pop 2,832 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
With a score of 6.4/10, tract 08031002801 in the Alamo Placita area of Denver, CO reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 2,832. The score leans hardest on local political climate at 9/10.
Risk score
6.4
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 22%
Stable renters 34%
Owners 44%
Tract context
Occupied units1,910
Renter share55.2%
SVI overall0.11
Poverty rate6.8%
Median income$92,243
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
43
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
42
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
85
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Denver and the region
Centroid at 39.7239, -104.9782 · click any tract to drill in
Why Alamo Placita scores 6.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal 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
6.8% poverty · this tract
1.7
Supply constraint
$1,982 rent vs county FMR
4.3
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 Alamo Placita compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 11
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 23%Socioeconomic
- 2%Household composition
- 26%Racial/ethnic minority
- 40%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
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
- 33%Grade B
- 66%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.
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)
- 107Total filings over 8 yrs
- 1.46%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.3%Peak (2010)
- 16Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 8 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Alamo Placita. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Alamo Placita
Running hot, eviction-process difficulty reads 8.5/10. Severe burden reaches 18%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.7/10. Disability prevalence runs 17.6% against 31.5% nationally.
Cost burden runs 39% here against 45.4% across Denver County. The filing record is not thin: 107 evictions over 8 years of observation.
Filings peaked in 2010 at 2.3% of renter households. Average gross rent is $1,982, 8% above the Denver average.
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. In a typical year about 1.5% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #16,032 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 2/10.
Statewide the CO average is 4.9, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
It tracks the Denver County average of 6.7 closely.
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 08031002801
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 08031002801?
Census tract 08031002801 in the Alamo Placita neighborhood scores 6.4/10 (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 08031002801?
Median gross rent is $1,982/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 39% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 08031002801?
6.8% of residents in tract 08031002801 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,832.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 08031002801?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 11th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 23th, household 2th, minority 26th, housing 40th.
Q5
Is tract 08031002801 considered part of Alamo Placita?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 08031002801 fall within Alamo Placita (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 08031002801?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 107 eviction filings across 8 validated years in tract 08031002801 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.46% of renter households, peaking at 2.3% in 2010. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
How does tract 08031002801 compare to Denver overall?
Tract 08031002801 scores 6.4/10, lower 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 08031002801 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 0% 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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