Kansas City Eviction Risk: Moderate

Severe burden reaches 22%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.7/10. Average gross rent is $896, 28% below the Kansas City average.

Against the Clay County average of 3.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 7.9/10. Cost burden runs 31% here against 37.1% across Clay County.

The poverty rate is 19%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. The filing record is not thin: 502 evictions over 9 years of observation.

Filings peaked in 2010 at 14.6% of renter households. In a typical year about 10.7% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the MO average is 3.8, so this tract runs 1.6 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

Annual rent works out to 19% of average household income of $56,442. 52% 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.