Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally

West Side Eviction Risk: Lower , Kansas City

Tract 20209980900 · Wyandotte County, KS · pop 98 · neighborhood within 1.2 mi

20209980900 is a census tract in the West Side area of Kansas City, KS. It scores 3/10 for landlords. Population here is 98. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.

Risk score

Lower

Confidence 45% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 0% Stable renters 0% Owners 100%

Tract context

SVI overall-10.00

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Kansas City and the region

Centroid at 39.0895, -94.6173 · click any tract to drill in

Why West Side 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

this tract poverty rate

3.0

Supply constraint

tract rent vs county FMR

5.0

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 West Side compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: -1,000

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

-1,000%Socioeconomic
-1,000%Household composition
-1,000%Racial/ethnic minority
-1,000%Housing & transportation

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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
0%Grade C
19%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.

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.

20.3%Housing insecurity
17.0%Utility-shutoff threat
24.7%Food insecurity
17.6%SNAP enrollment
13.2%Transit barriers
15.8%No health insurance
19.0%Frequent mental distress
33.0%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in West Side

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.5/10. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 17.0% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Against the Wyandotte County average of 3.8, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.8 points. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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.

That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Model confidence here is 45%, lower than typical because some ACS inputs for this tract carry wide margins of error, so read the score as a band, not a point.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 20209980900

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 20209980900?

Census tract 20209980900 in the West Side 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.

How socially vulnerable is tract 20209980900?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the -1000th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic -1000th, household -1000th, minority -1000th, housing -1000th.

Is tract 20209980900 considered part of West Side?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 20209980900 fall within West Side (neighborhood centroid within 1.2 miles, OSM data).

What share of households in tract 20209980900 struggle to pay rent?

About 20.3% 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. 17.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 20209980900 compare to Kansas City overall?

Tract 20209980900 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.

Was tract 20209980900 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 19% 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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