Whittier Eviction Risk: High , Minneapolis
Tract 27053106900 · Hennepin County, MN · pop 2,898 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
Census tract 27053106900 covers part of the Whittier area of Minneapolis, MN, and scores 8/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 2,898. Against the Hennepin County average of 5.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.9 points.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Minneapolis and the region
Centroid at 44.9591, -93.2738 · click any tract to drill in
Why Whittier scores 8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Whittier compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 75
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 79%Socioeconomic
- 22%Household composition
- 54%Racial/ethnic minority
- 89%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. 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
- 87%Grade C
- 13%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.
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)
- 143Total filings over 5 yrs
- 2.77%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.3%Peak (2009)
- 27Filings in 2013 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 175Total filings 2020-21
- 2.3Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.7Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.37×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Minneapolis-Saint Paul, MN as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Whittier. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 14.4%Housing insecurity
- 8.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 17.5%Food insecurity
- 13.2%SNAP enrollment
- 11.2%Transit barriers
- 9.9%No health insurance
- 19.3%Frequent mental distress
- 26.7%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Whittier
The dominant input is local political climate at 9/10. 25% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
This is renter territory: 74% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. The poverty rate is 30%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2/10. The filing record is not thin: 143 evictions over 5 years of observation.
At $1,171 a month, rents run 15% under what the rest of Minneapolis commands. Filings peaked in 2009 at 3.3% of renter households. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Minneapolis. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.
In a typical year about 2.8% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 91st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 7.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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