Owensboro Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 21059000700 · Daviess County, KY · pop 4,659 · 96% of tract blocks fall in Owensboro
Owensboro anchors census tract 21059000700, which lands at 3.9/10 on landlord eviction risk. That is riskier than about 11% of US census tracts.
About 40% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 22% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $655 a month while the average household earns $60,429 a year, roughly 13% of income at the averages. Renters make up 31% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Owensboro and the region
Centroid at 37.7546, -87.1217 · click any tract to drill in
Why Owensboro scores 3.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Owensboro compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 73
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 42%Socioeconomic
- 83%Household composition
- 18%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)
- 36Total filings over 4 yrs
- 1.22%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.8%Peak (2006)
- 6Filings in 2009 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Owensboro
The heaviest input here is housing court bias at 2.5/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. 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 below the Daviess County average of 4.2 and below the Kentucky statewide average of 4.7. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 73rd 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.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 36 eviction filings here over 4 tracked years, with about 1.2% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 1.8% of renter households in 2006.
For a landlord, this is among the easier places to operate: faster process, lighter tenant-protection overhead, and shorter typical cases.
About tract 21059000700
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Highest-risk tracts in Owensboro
Top eight tracts in Owensboro ranked by composite eviction-risk score.