Shadow Falls Eviction Risk: Moderate , St. Paul
Tract 27123043002 · Ramsey County, MN · pop 1,773 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
Tract 27123043002 sits in the Shadow Falls area of St. Paul, MN, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.7/10. Population here is 1,773. Against Ramsey County at 47.3%, 12% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across St. Paul and the region
Centroid at 44.9475, -93.1984 · click any tract to drill in
Why Shadow Falls scores 5.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Shadow Falls compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 9
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 10%Socioeconomic
- 2%Household composition
- 11%Racial/ethnic minority
- 63%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: A: Best
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 64%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 1%Grade C
- 0%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
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 20Total filings 2020-21
- 0.3Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.2Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.27×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran near baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Minneapolis-Saint Paul, MN as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Shadow Falls. 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.
- 5.5%Housing insecurity
- 3.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 6.4%Food insecurity
- 3.7%SNAP enrollment
- 4.9%Transit barriers
- 3.9%No health insurance
- 14.0%Frequent mental distress
- 21.8%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Shadow Falls
The score leans hardest on local political climate at 9/10. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10.
Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.5/10. At $994 a month, rents run 22% under what the rest of St. Paul commands. Food insecurity runs 6.4% against 17.8% nationally.
Housing insecurity runs 5.5% against 14.2% nationally. This ground was mapped A ("Best") 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. On the national scale it lands near the 74th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.8/10. Rent consumes only 11% of average household income of $112,500, an unusually wide affordability cushion.
Statewide the MN average is 4.5, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
It tracks the Ramsey County average of 5.6 closely. 47% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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