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Neighborhood · Ranked #6,676 of 84,120 nationally

Wellshire Eviction Risk: High , Denver

Tract 08031004006 · Denver County, CO · pop 4,704 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi

Census tract 08031004006 covers part of the Wellshire area of Denver, CO, and scores 8.2/10 on landlord eviction risk. The severe-burden share is 56%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Risk score
8.2
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 35% Stable renters 13% Owners 52%
Tract context
Occupied units2,256
Renter share48.1%
SVI overall0.29
Poverty rate17.0%
Median income$63,199

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 2 tracts In Wellshire
Very High
Within parent city
90 th percentile
Rank, 90th percentileLowHigh
#19 of 178 tracts In Denver
High
Within county
87 th percentile
Rank, 87th percentileLowHigh
#24 of 178 tracts In Denver County
High
Within state
99 th percentile
Rank, 99th percentileLowHigh
#15 of 1,447 tracts In Colorado
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Denver and the region

Centroid at 39.6730, -104.9500 · click any tract to drill in

Why Wellshire scores 8.2

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
17.0% poverty · this tract
4.3
Supply constraint
$1,662 rent vs county FMR
2.8
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 Wellshire compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Wellshire risk score vs. parent city / county / state8.2This tracttract 0040066.8Denverparent city6.7Countyavg tract in county4.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 29

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

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.

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)

  • 136Total filings over 8 yrs
  • 1.91%Avg annual filing rate
  • 2.7%Peak (2014)
  • 24Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2009 to 2016
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 08031004006
Filings climbed 33% over the past 8 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Wellshire. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Wellshire

Cost burden runs 72% here against 45.4% across Denver County. What pushes it up most is local political climate at 9/10. On the high side, eviction-process difficulty reads 8.5/10.

Against the Denver County average of 6.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points. Running hot, regional political climate reads 8.1/10.

Court records carry 136 eviction filings across 8 observed years. Average gross rent is $1,662, 9% below the Denver average. Filings peaked in 2014 at 2.7% of renter households.

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 1.9% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 92nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 3.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the CO average is 4.9, so this tract runs 3.3 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Annual rent works out to 32% of average household income of $63,199.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 08031004006

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 08031004006?

Census tract 08031004006 in the Wellshire neighborhood scores 8.2/10 (High 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 08031004006?

Median gross rent is $1,662/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 72% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 08031004006?

17.0% of residents in tract 08031004006 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,704.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 08031004006?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 29th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 41th, household 4th, minority 36th, housing 61th.
Q5

Is tract 08031004006 considered part of Wellshire?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 08031004006 fall within Wellshire (neighborhood centroid within 0.9 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 08031004006?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 136 eviction filings across 8 validated years in tract 08031004006 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.91% of renter households, peaking at 2.7% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

How does tract 08031004006 compare to Denver overall?

Tract 08031004006 scores 8.2/10, 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 08031004006 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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