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Neighborhood · Ranked #8,653 of 84,120 nationally

Rondo Eviction Risk: Elevated , St. Paul

Tract 27123032600 · Ramsey County, MN · pop 2,619 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi

Census tract 27123032600 covers part of the Rondo area of St. Paul, MN, and scores 7.9/10 on landlord eviction risk. Cost burden runs around two-thirds here against 47.3% across Ramsey County.

Risk score
7.9
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 31% Stable renters 16% Owners 53%
Tract context
Occupied units887
Renter share46.9%
SVI overall0.93
Poverty rate28.6%
Median income$58,319

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
67 th percentile
Rank, 67th percentileLowHigh
#6 of 16 tracts In Rondo
Elevated
Within parent city
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 85 tracts In St. Paul
Very High
Within county
95 th percentile
Rank, 95th percentileLowHigh
#8 of 143 tracts In Ramsey County
Very High
Within state
97 th percentile
Rank, 97th percentileLowHigh
#48 of 1,502 tracts In Minnesota
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across St. Paul and the region

Centroid at 44.9606, -93.1213 · click any tract to drill in

Why Rondo scores 7.9

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
28.6% poverty · this tract
7.2
Supply constraint
$1,285 rent vs county FMR
2.6
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 Rondo compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Rondo risk score vs. parent city / county / state7.9This tracttract 0326006.5St. Paulparent city5.6Countyavg tract in county4.5Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 93

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)

  • 367Total filings over 7 yrs
  • 11.28%Avg annual filing rate
  • 11.4%Peak (2011)
  • 35Filings in 2015 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2009 to 2015
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 27123032600
Filings dropped 40% over the past 7 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 181Total filings 2020-21
  • 2.4Avg monthly (observed)
  • 3.6Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.65×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). 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 Rondo. 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 Rondo

The severe-burden share is 37%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. What pushes it up most is local political climate at 9/10.

It sits 2.3 points above the Ramsey County average of 5.6. SNAP participation runs 33.9% against 15.2% nationally. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.5/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.5/10. The poverty rate is 29%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 367 filings here across 7 tracked years. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 16.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Filings peaked in 2011 at 11.4% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 11.3% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 90th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.4/10.

Statewide the MN average is 4.5, so this tract runs 3.4 points hotter.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 27123032600

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 27123032600?

Census tract 27123032600 in the Rondo neighborhood scores 7.9/10 (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 27123032600?

Median gross rent is $1,285/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 65% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 27123032600?

28.6% of residents in tract 27123032600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,619.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 27123032600?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 93th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 89th, household 70th, minority 82th, housing 95th.
Q5

Is tract 27123032600 considered part of Rondo?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 27123032600 fall within Rondo (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 27123032600?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 367 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 27123032600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 11.28% of renter households, peaking at 11.4% in 2011. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 27123032600 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.65× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings dropped sharply, likely a moratorium effect. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Minneapolis eviction risk-Saint Paul, MN), 2020-2021.
Q8

What share of households in tract 27123032600 struggle to pay rent?

About 25.7% 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. 16.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9

How does tract 27123032600 compare to St. Paul overall?

Tract 27123032600 scores 7.9/10, higher 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 27123032600 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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