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Westheight Eviction Risk: Lower , Kansas City

Tract 20209041600 · Wyandotte County, KS · pop 3,539 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi

Census tract 20209041600 covers part of the Westheight area of Kansas City, KS, and scores 3/10 on landlord eviction risk. The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.

Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 14% Stable renters 22% Owners 64%
Tract context
Occupied units1,125
Renter share36.2%
SVI overall0.84
Poverty rate9.8%
Median income$59,888

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#3 of 3 tracts In Westheight
Very Low
Within parent city
25 th percentile
Rank, 25th percentileLowHigh
#46 of 61 tracts In Kansas City
Low
Within county
30 th percentile
Rank, 30th percentileLowHigh
#45 of 64 tracts In Wyandotte County
Low
Within state
33 th percentile
Rank, 33rd percentileLowHigh
#559 of 829 tracts In Kansas
Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across Kansas City and the region

Centroid at 39.1152, -94.6552 · click any tract to drill in

Why Westheight scores 3

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
9.8% poverty · this tract
2.4
Supply constraint
$1,172 rent vs county FMR
3.7
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 Westheight compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Westheight risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.0This tracttract 0416003.4Kansas Cityparent city3.8Countyavg tract in county3.7Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 84

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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.

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.

Eviction filings

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)

  • 24Total filings over 1 yrs
  • 5.81%Avg annual filing rate
  • 5.8%Peak (2016)
  • 24Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Westheight. 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 Westheight

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.5/10. The severe-burden share is 17%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Adults with no health insurance runs 24.6% against 11.3% nationally. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10.

Against Wyandotte County at 44.1%, 39% of renters here are cost-burdened. Court records carry 24 eviction filings across 1 observed years.

Against the Wyandotte County average of 3.8, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.8 points. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 14.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The worst year on record was 2016, when 5.8% of renter households were served.

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 5.8% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 20209041600

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 20209041600?

Census tract 20209041600 in the Westheight neighborhood scores 3/10 (Lower 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 20209041600?

Median gross rent is $1,172/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 39% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 20209041600?

9.8% of residents in tract 20209041600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,539.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 20209041600?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 84th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 81th, household 55th, minority 90th, housing 83th.
Q5

Is tract 20209041600 considered part of Westheight?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 20209041600 fall within Westheight (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 20209041600?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 24 eviction filings across 1 validated years in tract 20209041600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.81% of renter households, peaking at 5.8% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 20209041600 struggle to pay rent?

About 21.9% 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. 14.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 20209041600 compare to Kansas City overall?

Tract 20209041600 scores 3/10, lower than the parent city of Kansas City at 3.4/10. 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.
Q9

Was tract 20209041600 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 4% 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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