Owensboro Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 21059001000 · Daviess County, KY · pop 3,805 · 88% of tract blocks fall in Owensboro
Owensboro anchors census tract 21059001000, which lands at 3.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. On the national scale it ranks #80,278 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
About 15% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a modest level, and 4% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $971 a month against an average household income of $67,928 a year, roughly 17% of income at the averages. Renters make up 39% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Owensboro and the region
Centroid at 37.7336, -87.1138 · click any tract to drill in
Why Owensboro scores 3.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Owensboro compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 55
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 46%Socioeconomic
- 90%Household composition
- 30%Racial/ethnic minority
- 39%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)
- 66Total filings over 4 yrs
- 3.17%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.0%Peak (2008)
- 7Filings in 2009 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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What drives eviction risk in Owensboro
The heaviest input here is supply constraint at 3.6/10. 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 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 55th 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 66 eviction filings here over 4 tracked years, with about 3.2% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 4.0% of renter households in 2008.
For a landlord, this is among the easier places to operate: faster process, lighter tenant-protection overhead, and shorter typical cases.
About tract 21059001000
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Highest-risk tracts in Owensboro
Top eight tracts in Owensboro ranked by composite eviction-risk score.