Kensington Eviction Risk: Moderate , Kansas City

56% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Wyandotte County average of 44.1%. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.5/10. Housing insecurity runs 28.4% against 14.2% nationally.

Severe burden reaches 18%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The poverty rate is 25%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10.

SNAP participation runs 26.1% against 15.2% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 25 filings here across 1 tracked years. It sits 0.7 points above the Wyandotte County average of 3.8.

Average gross rent is $1,014, 10% below the Kansas City average. Filings peaked in 2016 at 4.4% 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 4.4% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 51st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.