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Neighborhood · Ranked #32,735 of 84,120 nationally

Welborn Eviction Risk: Moderate , Kansas City

Tract 20209040100 · Wyandotte County, KS · pop 2,859 · neighborhood within 1.4 mi

Tract 20209040100 covers the Welborn neighborhood of Kansas City in Kansas. Home to 2,859 residents, it scores 5.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. That is riskier than roughly 53% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.

48% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 40% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,064 monthly, set against $54,444 in average yearly household income, roughly 23% of income at the averages. About 40% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

Risk score
4.5
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 19% Stable renters 21% Owners 60%
Tract context
Occupied units904
Renter share40.0%
SVI overall0.88
Poverty rate18.6%
Median income$54,444

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
33 th percentile
Rank, 33rd percentileLowHigh
#3 of 4 tracts In Welborn
Low
Within parent city
57 th percentile
Rank, 57th percentileLowHigh
#27 of 61 tracts In Kansas City
Elevated
Within county
59 th percentile
Rank, 59th percentileLowHigh
#27 of 64 tracts In Wyandotte County
Elevated
Within state
75 th percentile
Rank, 75th percentileLowHigh
#207 of 829 tracts In Kansas
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Kansas City and the region

Centroid at 39.1403, -94.6619 · click any tract to drill in

Why Welborn scores 4.5

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Kansas City
5.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.5
State political climate
Kansas legislature & governorship
2.0
Economic stress
18.6% poverty · this tract
4.6
Supply constraint
$1,064 rent vs county FMR
2.9
Rent control risk
Inherited from Kansas City
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Kansas City
4.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Kansas City
3.0

How Welborn compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Welborn risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 4.54.5This tracttract 040100Kansas City: 2.72.7Kansas Cityparent cityCounty: 4.34.3Countyavg tract in countyState: 3.53.5Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 88

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. 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.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Welborn. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress

Eviction-adjacent indicators

Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Welborn

What moves this score most is economic stress at 4.6/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Kansas City eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.

Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Wyandotte County average of 5.2 and above the Kansas statewide average of 4.2. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.

The tract is Hispanic or Latino and Black and ranks around the 88th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.

This tract overlaps land the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation redlined in the 1930s, a dominant grade of D ("Hazardous") across 59% of the tract. Redlining cut off mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class blocks, and those areas still tend to carry higher rent burden and eviction filings today.

For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.

Frequently asked

About tract 20209040100

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 20209040100?

Census tract 20209040100 in the Welborn neighborhood scores 4.5/10 (Moderate 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 20209040100?

Median gross rent is $1,064/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 48% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 20209040100?

18.6% of residents in tract 20209040100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,859.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 20209040100?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 88th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 94th, household 97th, minority 94th, housing 31th.
Q5

Is tract 20209040100 considered part of Welborn?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 20209040100 fall within Welborn (neighborhood centroid within 1.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 20209040100 struggle to pay rent?

About 26.3% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 19.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 20209040100 compare to Kansas City overall?

Tract 20209040100 scores 4.5/10, higher than the parent city of Kansas City at 2.7/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Kansas City eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 20209040100 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 59% 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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