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Oak Park Northwest Eviction Risk: Moderate , Kansas City

Tract 29095005602 · Jackson County, MO · pop 1,204 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi

Tract 29095005602 sits in the Oak Park Northwest area of Kansas City eviction risk, MO, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.4/10. Population here is 1,204. 45% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 30% Stable renters 19% Owners 51%
Tract context
Occupied units527
Renter share49.1%
SVI overall0.89
Poverty rate24.4%
Median income$45,489

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 2 tracts In Oak Park Northwest
Very High
Within parent city
68 th percentile
Rank, 68th percentileLowHigh
#53 of 163 tracts In Kansas City
Elevated
Within county
76 th percentile
Rank, 76th percentileLowHigh
#55 of 227 tracts In Jackson County
High
Within state
96 th percentile
Rank, 96th percentileLowHigh
#68 of 1,654 tracts In Missouri
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Kansas City and the region

Centroid at 39.0589, -94.5488 · click any tract to drill in

Why Oak Park Northwest 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
24.4% poverty · this tract
6.1
Supply constraint
$1,138 rent vs county FMR
3.5
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 Oak Park Northwest compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Oak Park Northwest risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 5.45.4This tracttract 005602Kansas City: 4.04.0Kansas Cityparent cityCounty: 4.24.2Countyavg tract in countyState: 3.93.9Stateavg 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: 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.

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)

  • 534Total filings over 14 yrs
  • 14.80%Avg annual filing rate
  • 19.2%Peak (2007)
  • 43Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2003 to 2017
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 290950056022003: 30 filings (17.14/100 renter HHs)2004: 30 filings (17.14/100 renter HHs)2005: 46 filings (16.67/100 renter HHs)2006: 44 filings (15.94/100 renter HHs)2007: 53 filings (19.20/100 renter HHs)2008: 37 filings (13.41/100 renter HHs)2009: 32 filings (11.59/100 renter HHs)2010: 38 filings (19.19/100 renter HHs)2011: 32 filings (10.53/100 renter HHs)2012: 30 filings (9.87/100 renter HHs)2013: 33 filings (10.86/100 renter HHs)2014: 37 filings (12.17/100 renter HHs)2015: 49 filings (16.12/100 renter HHs)2017: 43 filings (17.41/100 renter HHs)
Filings climbed 43% over the past 14 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 190Total filings 2020-21
  • 2.5Avg monthly (observed)
  • 2.9Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.86×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline2020-01-01: 1 filings (0.40× baseline)2020-02-01: 1 filings (0.44× baseline)2020-03-01: 1 filings (0.80× baseline)2020-04-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-06-01: 1 filings (0.29× baseline)2020-07-01: 8 filings (1.88× baseline)2020-08-01: 1 filings (0.29× baseline)2020-09-01: 3 filings (0.80× baseline)2020-10-01: 3 filings (0.92× baseline)2020-11-01: 2 filings (0.67× baseline)2020-12-01: 4 filings (1.23× baseline)2021-01-01: 2 filings (0.80× baseline)2021-02-01: 3 filings (1.33× baseline)2021-03-01: 2 filings (1.60× baseline)2021-04-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-06-01: 3 filings (0.86× baseline)2021-07-01: 4 filings (0.94× baseline)2021-08-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-09-01: 1 filings (0.27× baseline)2021-10-01: 1 filings (0.31× baseline)2021-11-01: 6 filings (2.00× baseline)2021-12-01: 3 filings (0.92× baseline)2022-01-01: 2 filings (0.80× baseline)2022-02-01: 1 filings (0.44× baseline)2022-03-01: 1 filings (0.80× baseline)2022-04-01: 6 filings (1.60× baseline)2022-05-01: 7 filings (2.80× baseline)2022-06-01: 2 filings (0.57× baseline)2022-07-01: 2 filings (0.47× baseline)2022-08-01: 4 filings (1.14× baseline)2022-09-01: 3 filings (0.80× baseline)2022-10-01: 3 filings (0.92× baseline)2022-11-01: 5 filings (1.67× baseline)2022-12-01: 2 filings (0.62× baseline)2023-01-01: 1 filings (0.40× baseline)2023-02-01: 4 filings (1.78× baseline)2023-03-01: 1 filings (0.80× baseline)2023-04-01: 1 filings (0.27× baseline)2023-05-01: 11 filings (4.40× baseline)2023-06-01: 1 filings (0.29× baseline)2023-07-01: 1 filings (0.24× baseline)2023-08-01: 3 filings (0.86× baseline)2023-09-01: 4 filings (1.07× baseline)2023-10-01: 2 filings (0.62× baseline)2023-11-01: 3 filings (1.00× baseline)2023-12-01: 4 filings (1.23× baseline)2024-01-01: 1 filings (0.40× baseline)2024-02-01: 2 filings (0.89× baseline)2024-03-01: 1 filings (0.80× baseline)2024-04-01: 2 filings (0.53× baseline)2024-05-01: 2 filings (0.80× baseline)2024-06-01: 6 filings (1.71× baseline)2024-07-01: 1 filings (0.24× baseline)2024-08-01: 3 filings (0.86× baseline)2024-09-01: 3 filings (0.80× baseline)2024-10-01: 3 filings (0.92× baseline)2024-11-01: 3 filings (1.00× baseline)2024-12-01: 1 filings (0.31× baseline)2025-01-01: 2 filings (0.80× baseline)2025-02-01: 3 filings (1.33× baseline)2025-03-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-04-01: 4 filings (1.07× baseline)2025-05-01: 3 filings (1.20× baseline)2025-06-01: 1 filings (0.29× baseline)2025-07-01: 2 filings (0.47× baseline)2025-08-01: 1 filings (0.29× baseline)2025-09-01: 5 filings (1.33× baseline)2025-10-01: 3 filings (0.92× baseline)2025-11-01: 4 filings (1.33× baseline)2025-12-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2026-01-01: 3 filings (30.00× baseline)2026-02-01: 1 filings (10.00× baseline)2026-03-01: 4 filings (40.00× baseline)2026-04-01: 2 filings (20.00× baseline)2026-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)

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

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Oak Park Northwest. 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 Oak Park Northwest

Cost burden runs 61% here against 43.0% across Jackson County. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10.

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. SNAP participation runs 29.8% against 15.2% nationally. Disability prevalence runs 44.5% against 31.5% nationally.

The poverty rate is 24%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Running cool, state political climate reads 2.1/10.

Against the Jackson County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points. Court records carry 534 eviction filings across 14 observed years.

The worst year on record was 2007, when 19.2% 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. Average gross rent is $1,138, 8% below the Kansas City average.

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 29095005602

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 29095005602?

Census tract 29095005602 in the Oak Park Northwest 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.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 29095005602?

Median gross rent is $1,138/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 61% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 29095005602?

24.4% of residents in tract 29095005602 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,204.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 29095005602?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 89th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 94th, household 76th, minority 93th, housing 62th.
Q5

Is tract 29095005602 considered part of Oak Park Northwest?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 29095005602 fall within Oak Park Northwest (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 29095005602?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 534 eviction filings across 14 validated years in tract 29095005602 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 14.80% of renter households, peaking at 19.2% in 2007. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 29095005602 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.86× 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 29095005602 struggle to pay rent?

About 30.0% 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. 23.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9

How does tract 29095005602 compare to Kansas City overall?

Tract 29095005602 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 29095005602 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. 0% 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

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

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