Westheight Eviction Risk: Moderate , Kansas City
Tract 20209041300 · Wyandotte County, KS · pop 4,857 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
For landlords sizing up Westheight in Kansas City, census tract 20209041300 carries a moderate eviction-risk score of 4.9/10. On the national scale it ranks #54,357 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 35% of renter households, a high level, and 33% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,058 a month against an average household income of $58,940 a year, roughly 22% of income at the averages. About 23% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Kansas City and the region
Centroid at 39.1232, -94.6661 · click any tract to drill in
Why Westheight scores 4.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Westheight compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 87
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 86%Socioeconomic
- 93%Household composition
- 87%Racial/ethnic minority
- 56%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
- 4%Grade B
- 74%Grade C
- 12%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)
- 31Total filings over 1 yrs
- 3.74%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.7%Peak (2016)
- 31Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Westheight. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 25.2%Housing insecurity
- 17.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 30.0%Food insecurity
- 17.7%SNAP enrollment
- 14.8%Transit barriers
- 26.0%No health insurance
- 17.7%Frequent mental distress
- 33.6%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Westheight
The score leans hardest on tenant organizing strength at $1/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. 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 safer side for landlords.
Part of this tract, about 12% of its area, sat in the redlined grade-D zone on 1930s HOLC maps, though its dominant grade was C ("Declining"). That lending history still correlates with present-day rent burden.
The tract is predominantly Hispanic or Latino and ranks around the 87th 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.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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