Within parent city
17
th percentile
Very Low
Census Tract · Ranked #48,956 of 84,120 nationally
Crystal Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 27053021001 · Hennepin County, MN · pop 6,175
Census tract 27053021001 covers part of Crystal, MN, and scores 4/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 6,175. The main counterweight is economic stress at 1.1/10.
Risk score
4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 14%
Stable renters 17%
Owners 69%
Tract context
Occupied units2,522
Renter share30.3%
SVI overall0.25
Poverty rate4.4%
Median income$82,409
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
39
th percentile
Low
Within state
48
th percentile
Moderate
National
42
th percentile
Moderate
Geographic context
Risk heat across Crystal and the region
Centroid at 45.0164, -93.3645 · click any tract to drill in
Why Crystal scores 4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Crystal
7.4
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.2
State political climate
Minnesota legislature & governorship
4.3
Economic stress
4.4% poverty · this tract
1.1
Supply constraint
$1,382 rent vs county FMR
3.2
Rent control risk
Inherited from Crystal
8.8
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
4.3
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Crystal
5.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Crystal
6.6
How Crystal compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 25
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 13%Socioeconomic
- 6%Household composition
- 52%Racial/ethnic minority
- 75%Housing & transportation
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)
- 231Total filings over 5 yrs
- 5.42%Avg annual filing rate
- 8.1%Peak (2009)
- 46Filings in 2013 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 27% over the past 5 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 167Total filings 2020-21
- 2.2Avg monthly (observed)
- 2.2Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.97×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Minneapolis-Saint Paul, MN as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 11.5%Housing insecurity
- 6.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 12.8%Food insecurity
- 8.5%SNAP enrollment
- 7.8%Transit barriers
- 8.5%No health insurance
- 16.3%Frequent mental distress
- 26.2%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Crystal
On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.8/10. Severe burden reaches 23%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
It sits 1.1 points below the Hennepin County average of 5.1. Running hot, local political climate reads 7.4/10. The filing record is not thin: 231 evictions over 5 years of observation.
Filings peaked in 2009 at 8.1% of renter households. In a typical year about 5.4% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 42% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 3.2/10. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.
Rent takes 30% or more of income for 45% of renters. Average gross rent is $1,382, close to the Crystal average.
Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.
Frequently asked
About tract 27053021001
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 27053021001?
Census tract 27053021001 in Crystal scores 4/10 (Moderate 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 27053021001?
Median gross rent is $1,382/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 45% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 27053021001?
4.4% of residents in tract 27053021001 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,175.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 27053021001?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 25th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 13th, household 6th, minority 52th, housing 75th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 27053021001?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 231 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 27053021001 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.42% of renter households, peaking at 8.1% in 2009. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 27053021001 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.97× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Minneapolis eviction risk-Saint Paul, MN), 2020-2021.
Q7
What share of households in tract 27053021001 struggle to pay rent?
About 11.5% 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. 6.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 27053021001 compare to Crystal overall?
Tract 27053021001 scores 4/10, right in line with the parent city of Crystal at 4.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Crystal eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Crystal
Top eight tracts in Crystal ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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