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Neighborhood · Ranked #52,479 of 84,120 nationally

Welborn Eviction Risk: Lower , Kansas City

Tract 20209044400 · Wyandotte County, KS · pop 3,217 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi

20209044400 is a census tract in the Welborn area of Kansas City, KS. It scores 3.8/10 for landlords. Population here is 3,217. Severe burden reaches 45%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
3.8
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 24% Stable renters 1% Owners 75%
Tract context
Occupied units1,040
Renter share25.2%
SVI overall0.84
Poverty rate18.2%
Median income$52,083

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
33 th percentile
Rank, 33rd percentileLowHigh
#3 of 4 tracts In Welborn
Low
Within parent city
57 th percentile
Rank, 57th percentileLowHigh
#27 of 61 tracts In Kansas City
Elevated
Within county
60 th percentile
Rank, 60th percentileLowHigh
#26 of 64 tracts In Wyandotte County
Elevated
Within state
64 th percentile
Rank, 64th percentileLowHigh
#296 of 829 tracts In Kansas
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Kansas City and the region

Centroid at 39.1358, -94.6964 · click any tract to drill in

Why Welborn scores 3.8

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
18.2% poverty · this tract
4.6
Supply constraint
$1,307 rent vs county FMR
4.7
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 Welborn compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Welborn risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.8This tracttract 0444003.4Kansas 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.

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)

  • 28Total filings over 1 yrs
  • 9.89%Avg annual filing rate
  • 9.9%Peak (2016)
  • 28Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Welborn. 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 Welborn

Cost burden runs 97% here against 44.1% across Wyandotte County. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.5/10.

Running cool, state political climate reads 2/10. The poverty rate is 18%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. At $1,307 a month, rents run 16% over what the rest of Kansas City commands.

Court records carry 28 eviction filings across 1 observed years. Food insecurity runs 25.3% against 17.8% nationally.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The worst year on record was 2016, when 9.9% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 9.9% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 38% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.6/10.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. It tracks the Wyandotte County average of 3.8 closely. Annual rent works out to 30% of average household income of $52,083.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 20209044400

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 20209044400?

Census tract 20209044400 in the Welborn neighborhood scores 3.8/10 (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 20209044400?

Median gross rent is $1,307/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 97% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 20209044400?

18.2% of residents in tract 20209044400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,217.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 20209044400?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 84th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 90th, household 95th, minority 77th, housing 34th.
Q5

Is tract 20209044400 considered part of Welborn?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 20209044400 fall within Welborn (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 20209044400?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 28 eviction filings across 1 validated years in tract 20209044400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 9.89% of renter households, peaking at 9.9% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 20209044400 struggle to pay rent?

About 20.6% 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. 15.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 20209044400 compare to Kansas City overall?

Tract 20209044400 scores 3.8/10, higher 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.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Kansas City

Top eight tracts in Kansas City ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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