Riverview Eviction Risk: Moderate , Kansas City
Tract 20209042100 · Wyandotte County, KS · pop 2,954 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
For landlords sizing up Riverview in Kansas City, census tract 20209042100 carries a moderate eviction-risk score of 5.4/10. On the national scale it ranks #39,162 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 36% of renter households, a high level, and 23% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,288 a month against an average household income of $56,042 a year, roughly 28% of income at the averages. Renters make up 28% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Kansas City and the region
Centroid at 39.1064, -94.6414 · click any tract to drill in
Why Riverview scores 5.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Riverview compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 90
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 84%Socioeconomic
- 96%Household composition
- 85%Racial/ethnic minority
- 64%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 38%Grade C
- 62%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)
- 24Total filings over 1 yrs
- 5.57%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.6%Peak (2016)
- 24Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Riverview. 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.
- 29.1%Housing insecurity
- 20.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 37.2%Food insecurity
- 23.6%SNAP enrollment
- 18.1%Transit barriers
- 31.8%No health insurance
- 19.4%Frequent mental distress
- 38.3%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Riverview
The score leans hardest on economic stress at 7.2/10. 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 predominantly Hispanic or Latino and ranks around the 90th 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.
In CDC survey modeling, about 29.1% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 20.5% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 20209042100
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