Woodland Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Springfield
Tract 29077005600 · Greene County, MO · pop 3,232 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi
Census tract 29077005600 covers Woodland Heights in Springfield, home to 3,232 residents. For landlords it grades 4.6/10, a moderate reading. That is riskier than about 26% of US census tracts.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 37% of renter households, a high level, and 15% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $964 a month while the average household earns $54,530 a year, roughly 21% of income at the averages. Renters make up 60% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Springfield and the region
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Why Woodland Heights scores 4.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Woodland Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 65
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 71%Socioeconomic
- 21%Household composition
- 11%Racial/ethnic minority
- 91%Housing & transportation
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
- 19%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
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 371Total filings over 9 yrs
- 6.68%Avg annual filing rate
- 8.4%Peak (2010)
- 39Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Woodland Heights. 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.
- 12.5%Housing insecurity
- 9.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 14.4%Food insecurity
- 10.9%SNAP enrollment
- 8.9%Transit barriers
- 9.1%No health insurance
- 19.4%Frequent mental distress
- 37.3%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Woodland Heights
The heaviest input here is supply constraint at 4.7/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Springfield eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Greene County average of 4.7 and in line with the Missouri statewide average of 4.8. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 12.5% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 9.1% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 65th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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