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Neighborhood · Ranked #35,669 of 84,120 nationally

Robberson Eviction Risk: Moderate , Springfield

Tract 29077005500 · Greene County, MO · pop 5,004 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi

Census tract 29077005500 covers part of the Robberson area of Springfield, MO, and scores 4.8/10 on landlord eviction risk. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10.

Risk score
4.8
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 33% Stable renters 34% Owners 33%
Tract context
Occupied units1,984
Renter share66.3%
SVI overall0.89
Poverty rate29.9%
Median income$35,076

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 2 tracts In Robberson
Very Low
Within parent city
92 th percentile
Rank, 92nd percentileLowHigh
#6 of 62 tracts In Springfield
Very High
Within county
99 th percentile
Rank, 99th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 78 tracts In Greene County
Very High
Within state
83 th percentile
Rank, 83rd percentileLowHigh
#288 of 1,654 tracts In Missouri
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Springfield and the region

Centroid at 37.2359, -93.2782 · click any tract to drill in

Why Robberson scores 4.8

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Springfield
3.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.0
State political climate
Missouri legislature & governorship
2.1
Economic stress
29.9% poverty · this tract
7.5
Supply constraint
$927 rent vs county FMR
4.3
Rent control risk
Inherited from Springfield
1.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Springfield
2.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Springfield
2.5

How Robberson compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Robberson risk score vs. parent city / county / state4.8This tracttract 0055003.4Springfieldparent city3.8Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 89

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

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.

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)

  • 1,024Total filings over 9 yrs
  • 11.56%Avg annual filing rate
  • 13.5%Peak (2017)
  • 140Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2009 to 2017
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 29077005500
Filings climbed 51% over the past 9 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Robberson. 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 Robberson

The poverty rate is 30%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. The severe-burden share is 19%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

This is renter territory: 66% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. On the softer side, tenant-organizing strength reads 2/10. 49% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Greene County average of 41.2%.

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 7.9/10. It sits 1.1 points above the Greene County average of 3.7.

Food insecurity runs 27.3% against 17.8% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,024 filings here across 9 tracked years.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 17.3% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The worst year on record was 2017, when 13.5% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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 11.6% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #35,669 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 29077005500

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 29077005500?

Census tract 29077005500 in the Robberson 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

What is the average rent in tract 29077005500?

Median gross rent is $927/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 49% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 29077005500?

29.9% of residents in tract 29077005500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,004.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 29077005500?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 89th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 87th, household 79th, minority 38th, housing 92th.
Q5

Is tract 29077005500 considered part of Robberson?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 29077005500 fall within Robberson (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 29077005500?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 1,024 eviction filings across 9 validated years in tract 29077005500 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 11.56% of renter households, peaking at 13.5% in 2017. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 29077005500 struggle to pay rent?

About 20.7% 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. 17.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 29077005500 compare to Springfield overall?

Tract 29077005500 scores 4.8/10, higher than the parent city of Springfield at 3.4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Springfield eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9

Was tract 29077005500 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. 74% 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 Springfield

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

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