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.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.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-friendlyHow Wellshire compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 29
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 41%Socioeconomic
- 4%Household composition
- 36%Racial/ethnic minority
- 61%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
- 54%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
- 1.91%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.7%Peak (2014)
- 24Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Wellshire. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
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.
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