Kensington Eviction Risk: Moderate , Kansas City
Tract 20209041500 · Wyandotte County, KS · pop 2,750 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
How risky is the Kensington neighborhood of Kansas City for landlords? Census tract 20209041500 scores 5.7/10, the Moderate tier. On the national scale it ranks #29,533 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 56% of renter households, a severe level, and 18% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $1,014 a month while the average household earns $50,764 a year, roughly 24% of income at the averages. About 60% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Kansas City and the region
Centroid at 39.1103, -94.6711 · click any tract to drill in
Why Kensington scores 5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Kensington compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 85
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 86%Socioeconomic
- 70%Household composition
- 87%Racial/ethnic minority
- 71%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
- 21%Grade C
- 13%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)
- 25Total filings over 1 yrs
- 4.43%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.4%Peak (2016)
- 25Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Kensington. 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.
- 28.4%Housing insecurity
- 21.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 38.2%Food insecurity
- 26.1%SNAP enrollment
- 18.9%Transit barriers
- 28.4%No health insurance
- 19.8%Frequent mental distress
- 39.1%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Kensington
What moves this score most is economic stress at 6.1/10. 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 above 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.
Part of this tract, about 13% 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 racially mixed and ranks around the 85th 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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