Neighborhood · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally

Sheffield Eviction Risk: Moderate , Kansas City

Tract 29095002000 · Jackson County, MO · pop 1,917 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi

Census tract 29095002000 covers part of the Sheffield area of Kansas City, MO, and scores 5.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 1,917 residents. Food insecurity runs 39.2% against 17.8% nationally.

Risk score

5.4

Moderate

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 7% Stable renters 16% Owners 77%

Tract context

Occupied units766

Renter share23.8%

SVI overall0.98

Poverty rate31.2%

Median income$35,000

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Kansas City and the region

Centroid at 39.1023, -94.5002 · click any tract to drill in

Why Sheffield scores 5.4

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly

Local political climate

Inherited from Kansas City

6.0

Regional political climate

2024 county presidential margin

6.1

State political climate

Missouri legislature & governorship

2.1

Economic stress

31.2% poverty · this tract

7.8

Supply constraint

$831 rent vs county FMR

1.2

Rent control risk

Inherited from Kansas City

1.5

Eviction process difficulty

State law sets the calendar

4.0

Tenant organizing strength

Inherited from Kansas City

4.5

Housing court bias

Inherited from Kansas City

4.0

How Sheffield compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 98

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

99%Socioeconomic
99%Household composition
84%Racial/ethnic minority
68%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
46%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

Historic baseline (2000–2018)

296Total filings over 14 yrs
7.52%Avg annual filing rate
14.7%Peak (2005)
15Filings in 2017 (latest validated)

Filings by year 2003 to 2017

Filings dropped 46% over the past 14 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

91Total filings 2020-21
1.2Avg monthly (observed)
2.0Pre-pandemic baseline
0.59×Ratio to baseline

Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01

Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Kansas City, MO as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

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.

31.8%Housing insecurity
21.1%Utility-shutoff threat
39.2%Food insecurity
29.3%SNAP enrollment
19.2%Transit barriers
30.1%No health insurance
21.5%Frequent mental distress
46.7%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Sheffield

The clearest offset is supply constraint at 1.2/10. At $831 a month, rents run 33% under what the rest of Kansas City commands.

Against Jackson County at 43.0%, around a third of renters here are cost-burdened. 23% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. The poverty rate is 31%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Disability prevalence runs 46.7% against 31.5% nationally.

Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. It sits 1.2 points above the Jackson County average of 4.2.

Court records carry 296 eviction filings across 14 observed years. Filings peaked in 2005 at 14.7% of renter households. 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 7.5% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.

Frequently asked

About tract 29095002000

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 29095002000?

Census tract 29095002000 in the Sheffield neighborhood scores 5.4/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

What is the average rent in tract 29095002000?

Median gross rent is $831/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 31% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 29095002000?

31.2% of residents in tract 29095002000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,917.

How socially vulnerable is tract 29095002000?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 98th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 99th, household 99th, minority 84th, housing 68th.

Is tract 29095002000 considered part of Sheffield?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 29095002000 fall within Sheffield (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 29095002000?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 296 eviction filings across 14 validated years in tract 29095002000 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 7.52% of renter households, peaking at 14.7% in 2005. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.

Did eviction filings in tract 29095002000 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.59× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings dropped sharply, likely a moratorium effect. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Kansas City eviction risk, MO), 2020-2021.

What share of households in tract 29095002000 struggle to pay rent?

About 31.8% 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. 21.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 29095002000 compare to Kansas City overall?

Tract 29095002000 scores 5.4/10, higher than the parent city of Kansas City at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Kansas City eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.

Q10

Was tract 29095002000 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. 46% 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 Kansas City

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

Eviction Lab tract-level court records (2000-2018) and Eviction Tracking System, Princeton University. Open Data Commons Attribution license. evictionlab.org