Platt Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Denver
Tract 08031002902 · Denver County, CO · pop 4,028 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi
Census tract 08031002902 covers part of the Platt Park area of Denver, CO, and scores 5.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 4,028 residents. about a quarter of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly below the Denver County average of 45.4%.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Denver and the region
Centroid at 39.7016, -104.9767 · click any tract to drill in
Why Platt Park scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Platt Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 1
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 10%Socioeconomic
- 2%Household composition
- 15%Racial/ethnic minority
- 11%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
- 24%Grade B
- 76%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)
- 27Total filings over 7 yrs
- 0.63%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.7%Peak (2010)
- 2Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Platt Park. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Platt Park
What pushes it up most is local political climate at 9/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 8.5/10. Running cool, economic stress reads 1.8/10.
Disability prevalence runs 18.0% against 31.5% nationally. Against the Denver County average of 6.7, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.3 points. Average gross rent is $2,213, 21% above the Denver average.
10% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The filing record is not thin: 27 evictions over 7 years of observation.
The worst year on record was 2010, when 1.7% 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 0.6% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #24,859 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.1/10, 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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