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Neighborhood · Ranked #17,650 of 84,120 nationally

Iris Park Eviction Risk: Elevated , St. Paul

Tract 27123032200 · Ramsey County, MN · pop 2,349 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi

With a score of 6.1/10, tract 27123032200 in the Iris Park area of St. Paul, MN reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. Against Ramsey County at 47.3%, roughly one in four of renters here are cost-burdened.

Risk score
6.1
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 10% Stable renters 29% Owners 61%
Tract context
Occupied units1,020
Renter share39.4%
SVI overall0.39
Poverty rate7.5%
Median income$83,904

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#3 of 3 tracts In Iris Park
Very Low
Within parent city
24 th percentile
Rank, 24th percentileLowHigh
#65 of 85 tracts In St. Paul
Low
Within county
53 th percentile
Rank, 53rd percentileLowHigh
#68 of 143 tracts In Ramsey County
Moderate
Within state
88 th percentile
Rank, 88th percentileLowHigh
#188 of 1,502 tracts In Minnesota
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across St. Paul and the region

Centroid at 44.9619, -93.1600 · click any tract to drill in

Why Iris Park scores 6.1

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
7.5% poverty · this tract
1.9
Supply constraint
$747 rent vs county FMR
1.0
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 Iris Park compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Iris Park risk score vs. parent city / county / state6.1This tracttract 0322006.5St. Paulparent city5.6Countyavg tract in county4.5Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 39

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. 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)

  • 74Total filings over 7 yrs
  • 2.86%Avg annual filing rate
  • 6.1%Peak (2009)
  • 9Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2009 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 27123032200
Filings dropped 63% over the past 7 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 71Total filings 2020-21
  • 0.9Avg monthly (observed)
  • 0.5Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 1.79×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran above 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 Iris Park. 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 Iris Park

Average gross rent is $747, 42% below the St. Paul average. What pushes it up most is local political climate at 9/10.

Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.5/10.

12% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. SNAP participation runs 6.1% against 15.2% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 74 filings here across 7 tracked years.

Food insecurity runs 10.1% against 17.8% nationally. Filings peaked in 2009 at 6.1% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

In a typical year about 2.9% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 79% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 4.5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

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 27123032200

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 27123032200?

Census tract 27123032200 in the Iris Park neighborhood scores 6.1/10 (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 27123032200?

Median gross rent is $747/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 26% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 27123032200?

7.5% of residents in tract 27123032200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,349.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 27123032200?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 39th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 19th, household 33th, minority 35th, housing 79th.
Q5

Is tract 27123032200 considered part of Iris Park?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 27123032200 fall within Iris Park (neighborhood centroid within 1.0 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 27123032200?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 74 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 27123032200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.86% of renter households, peaking at 6.1% in 2009. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 27123032200 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 1.79× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran above pre-pandemic norms. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Minneapolis eviction risk-Saint Paul, MN), 2020-2021.
Q8

What share of households in tract 27123032200 struggle to pay rent?

About 8.3% 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. 5.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9

How does tract 27123032200 compare to St. Paul overall?

Tract 27123032200 scores 6.1/10, lower than 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 27123032200 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 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

Highest-risk tracts in St. Paul

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

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