Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #56,048 of 84,120 nationally
Roanoke Eviction Risk: Lower , Kansas City
Tract 29095004600 · Jackson County, MO · pop 2,545 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
With a score of 3.6/10, tract 29095004600 in the Roanoke area of Kansas City, MO reads lower for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,545 residents. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10.
Risk score
3.6
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 20%
Stable renters 29%
Owners 51%
Tract context
Occupied units1,298
Renter share49.8%
SVI overall0.23
Poverty rate7.1%
Median income$67,000
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
27
th percentile
Low
Within county
42
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
53
th percentile
Moderate
Geographic context
Risk heat across Kansas City and the region
Centroid at 39.0645, -94.6012 · click any tract to drill in
Why Roanoke scores 3.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal 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
7.1% poverty · this tract
1.8
Supply constraint
$975 rent vs county FMR
2.2
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 Roanoke compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 23
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 42%Socioeconomic
- 7%Household composition
- 37%Racial/ethnic minority
- 29%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. 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
- 80%Grade C
- 2%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)
- 253Total filings over 14 yrs
- 2.74%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.6%Peak (2007)
- 8Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 58% over the past 14 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 100Total filings 2020-21
- 1.3Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.3Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.98×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. 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.
- 10.0%Housing insecurity
- 7.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 9.3%Food insecurity
- 6.0%SNAP enrollment
- 6.3%Transit barriers
- 6.7%No health insurance
- 16.5%Frequent mental distress
- 27.3%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Roanoke
Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. The severe-burden share is 19%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Running cool, economic stress reads 1.8/10. At $975 a month, rents run 21% under what the rest of Kansas City commands.
SNAP participation runs 6.0% against 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity runs 9.3% against 17.8% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 253 evictions over 14 years of observation.
Against the Jackson County average of 4.2, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.6 points. The worst year on record was 2007, when 4.6% of renter households were served.
This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Greater Kansas City. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 2.7% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #56,048 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 3/10.
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 29095004600
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 29095004600?
Census tract 29095004600 in the Roanoke neighborhood scores 3.6/10 (Lower 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 29095004600?
Median gross rent is $975/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 41% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 29095004600?
7.1% of residents in tract 29095004600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,545.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 29095004600?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 23th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 42th, household 7th, minority 37th, housing 29th.
Q5
Is tract 29095004600 considered part of Roanoke?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 29095004600 fall within Roanoke (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 29095004600?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 253 eviction filings across 14 validated years in tract 29095004600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.74% of renter households, peaking at 4.6% in 2007. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 29095004600 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.98× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Kansas City eviction risk, MO), 2020-2021.
Q8
What share of households in tract 29095004600 struggle to pay rent?
About 10.0% 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. 7.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 29095004600 compare to Kansas City overall?
Tract 29095004600 scores 3.6/10, lower 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 29095004600 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 2% 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.
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