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North End Eviction Risk: Elevated , St. Paul

Tract 27123030800 · Ramsey County, MN · pop 5,276 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi

With a score of 6.7/10, tract 27123030800 in the North End area of St. Paul, MN reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 5,276. The score leans hardest on local political climate at 9/10.

Risk score
6.7
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 13% Stable renters 17% Owners 70%
Tract context
Occupied units1,840
Renter share30.1%
SVI overall0.87
Poverty rate12.6%
Median income$79,167

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#3 of 5 tracts In North End
Moderate
Within parent city
44 th percentile
Rank, 44th percentileLowHigh
#48 of 85 tracts In St. Paul
Moderate
Within county
68 th percentile
Rank, 68th percentileLowHigh
#46 of 143 tracts In Ramsey County
Elevated
Within state
91 th percentile
Rank, 91st percentileLowHigh
#136 of 1,502 tracts In Minnesota
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across St. Paul and the region

Centroid at 44.9760, -93.1155 · click any tract to drill in

Why North End scores 6.7

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from St. Paul
9.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.3
State political climate
Minnesota legislature & governorship
4.3
Economic stress
12.6% poverty · this tract
3.2
Supply constraint
$1,183 rent vs county FMR
2.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from St. Paul
8.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
7.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from St. Paul
8.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from St. Paul
7.5

How North End compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
North End risk score vs. parent city / county / state6.7This tracttract 0308006.5St. Paulparent city5.6Countyavg tract in county4.5Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 87

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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.

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.

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)

  • 383Total filings over 7 yrs
  • 8.75%Avg annual filing rate
  • 9.6%Peak (2015)
  • 62Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2009 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 27123030800
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 7 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 177Total filings 2020-21
  • 2.3Avg monthly (observed)
  • 3.1Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.74×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic 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

Within North End. 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in North End

On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.5/10. The severe-burden share is 20%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10.

Against the Ramsey County average of 5.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 383 filings here across 7 tracked years.

Against Ramsey County at 47.3%, 43% of renters here are cost-burdened. Filings peaked in 2015 at 9.6% of renter households.

This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for St. Paul. 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 8.8% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 83rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 8.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Against average income of $79,167, annual rent is just 18%. Statewide the MN average is 4.5, so this tract runs 2.2 points hotter.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 27123030800

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 27123030800?

Census tract 27123030800 in the North End neighborhood scores 6.7/10 (Elevated 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 27123030800?

Median gross rent is $1,183/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 43% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 27123030800?

12.6% of residents in tract 27123030800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,276.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 27123030800?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 87th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 84th, household 86th, minority 77th, housing 71th.
Q5

Is tract 27123030800 considered part of North End?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 27123030800 fall within North End (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 27123030800?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 383 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 27123030800 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 8.75% of renter households, peaking at 9.6% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 27123030800 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.74× 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.
Q8

What share of households in tract 27123030800 struggle to pay rent?

About 15.6% 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. 8.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9

How does tract 27123030800 compare to St. Paul overall?

Tract 27123030800 scores 6.7/10, right in line with the parent city of St. Paul at 6.5/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from St. Paul eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q10

Was tract 27123030800 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
Sibling tracts

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Top eight tracts in St. Paul ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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