Muncie Eviction Risk: Moderate , Kansas City
Tract 20209044001 · Wyandotte County, KS · pop 3,403 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi
In the Muncie area of Kansas City, census tract 20209044001 scores 4.7/10 for eviction risk. That is riskier than roughly 29% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
23% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a moderate level, and 16% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,254 monthly, set against $70,568 in average yearly household income, roughly 21% of income at the averages. Renters make up 41% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Kansas City and the region
Centroid at 39.0962, -94.7635 · click any tract to drill in
Why Muncie scores 4.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Muncie compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 64
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 78%Socioeconomic
- 77%Household composition
- 58%Racial/ethnic minority
- 22%Housing & transportation
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)
- 42Total filings over 1 yrs
- 6.64%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.6%Peak (2016)
- 42Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 15.1%Housing insecurity
- 12.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 17.2%Food insecurity
- 10.8%SNAP enrollment
- 9.7%Transit barriers
- 11.8%No health insurance
- 17.1%Frequent mental distress
- 30.3%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Muncie
The score leans hardest on economic stress at 4.4/10. 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 below 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.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 64th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
In CDC survey modeling, about 15.1% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 12.0% 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.
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