Owensboro Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 21059000200 · Daviess County, KY · pop 3,257 · 89% of tract blocks fall in Owensboro
Census tract 21059000200 belongs to Owensboro, Kentucky. It is home to 3,257 residents and scores 4.6/10, a moderate reading for landlords. That is riskier than about 26% of US census tracts.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 31% of renter households, a high level, and 13% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $609 monthly, set against $24,856 in average yearly household income, roughly 29% of income at the averages. Renters make up 67% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Owensboro and the region
Centroid at 37.7963, -87.1438 · click any tract to drill in
Why Owensboro scores 5.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Owensboro compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 96
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 88%Socioeconomic
- 95%Household composition
- 46%Racial/ethnic minority
- 97%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)
- 187Total filings over 4 yrs
- 4.86%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.5%Peak (2008)
- 37Filings in 2009 (latest validated)
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What drives eviction risk in Owensboro
The heaviest input here is economic stress at 9.9/10. 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 Owensboro eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Daviess County average of 4.2 and in line with the Kentucky statewide average of 4.7. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 187 eviction filings here over 4 tracked years, with about 4.9% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 6.5% of renter households in 2008.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 96th 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.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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Highest-risk tracts in Owensboro
Top eight tracts in Owensboro ranked by composite eviction-risk score.