Center City Eviction Risk: Moderate , Kansas City

At $297 a month, rents run 76% under what the rest of Kansas City commands. Food insecurity runs 41.1% against 17.8% nationally.

The poverty rate is 43%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10. Severe burden reaches 24%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 26.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10.

Against the Jackson County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points. 37% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Jackson County average of 43.0%. Court records carry 448 eviction filings across 14 observed years.

The worst year on record was 2005, when 14.8% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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 9.6% 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.