South Park Hill Eviction Risk: Elevated , Denver
Tract 08031004307 · Denver County, CO · pop 2,251 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi
Census tract 08031004307 covers part of the South Park Hill area of Denver, CO, and scores 7.1/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,251 residents. The score leans hardest on local political climate at 9/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Denver and the region
Centroid at 39.7369, -104.9352 · click any tract to drill in
Why South Park Hill scores 7.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow South Park Hill compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 22
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 37%Socioeconomic
- 10%Household composition
- 43%Racial/ethnic minority
- 28%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 20%Grade A
- 63%Grade B
- 4%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.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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What drives eviction risk in South Park Hill
73% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. On the high side, eviction-process difficulty reads 8.5/10. 19% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.6/10. Average gross rent is $1,404, 23% below the Denver average. Cost burden runs 50% here against 45.4% across Denver County.
This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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. On the national scale it lands near the 85th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
Social vulnerability reads 3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the CO average is 4.9, so this tract runs 2.2 points hotter.
Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. It tracks the Denver County average of 6.7 closely. Annual rent works out to 26% of average household income of $64,088.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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