Neighborhood · Ranked #28,017 of 84,120 nationally
Highwood Hills Eviction Risk: Moderate , St. Paul
Tract 27123980000 ·
Ramsey County, MN · pop 0 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi
Census tract 27123980000 covers part of St. Paul, Minnesota, but it has little or no resident population in the latest Census count. Tracts like this usually fall over parks, water, industrial land, or institutional grounds, so there is no household-level rent or eviction profile to report. Its eviction-risk score of $1/10 reflects the surrounding county and state framework rather than local renters.
Risk score
4.8
Moderate
Confidence 45% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 0%Stable renters 0%Owners 100%
Tract context
SVI overall-10.00
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0th percentile
#2 of 2 tracts In Highwood Hills
Very Low
Within parent city
35th percentile
#56 of 85 tracts In St. Paul
Low
Within county
63th percentile
#53 of 143 tracts In Ramsey County
Elevated
Within state
77th percentile
#345 of 1,502 tracts In Minnesota
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across St. Paul and the region
Centroid at 44.9109, -93.0202 · click any tract to drill in
Why Highwood Hills scores 4.8
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
this tract poverty rate
3.0
Supply constraint
tract rent vs county FMR
5.0
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 Highwood Hills compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: -1,000
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
-1,000%Socioeconomic
-1,000%Household composition
-1,000%Racial/ethnic minority
-1,000%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. 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
0%Grade C
6%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.
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
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
0Total filings 2020-21
0.0Avg monthly (observed)
0.0Pre-pandemic baseline
0.00×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–20212020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
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 Highwood Hills. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 27123980000?
Census tract 27123980000 in the Highwood Hills neighborhood scores 4.8/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
How socially vulnerable is tract 27123980000?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the -1000th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic -1000th, household -1000th, minority -1000th, housing -1000th.
Q3
Is tract 27123980000 considered part of Highwood Hills?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 27123980000 fall within Highwood Hills (neighborhood centroid within 0.9 miles, OSM data).
Q4
How does tract 27123980000 compare to St. Paul overall?
Tract 27123980000 scores 4.8/10, lower than the parent city of St. Paul at 6.6/10. 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.
Q5
Was tract 27123980000 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 6% 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.