Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Sunset Hill Eviction Risk: Lower , Kansas City
Tract 29095007200 · Jackson County, MO · pop 2,019 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Census tract 29095007200 covers part of the Sunset Hill area of Kansas City, MO, and scores 3/10 on landlord eviction risk. Cost burden runs 25% here against 43.0% across Jackson County.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 5%
Stable renters 16%
Owners 79%
Tract context
Occupied units990
Renter share21.9%
SVI overall0.01
Poverty rate6.2%
Median income$126,094
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
1
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
27
th percentile
Low
Within state
33
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Kansas City and the region
Centroid at 39.0348, -94.6002 · click any tract to drill in
Why Sunset Hill scores 3
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
6.2% poverty · this tract
1.6
Supply constraint
$1,536 rent vs county FMR
6.4
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 Sunset Hill compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 1
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 1%Socioeconomic
- 6%Household composition
- 14%Racial/ethnic minority
- 7%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: A: Best
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 51%Grade A
- 17%Grade B
- 11%Grade C
- 0%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)
- 87Total filings over 14 yrs
- 2.08%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.9%Peak (2010)
- 4Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 14 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 12Total filings 2020-21
- 0.2Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.2Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.00×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran near 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.
- 5.9%Housing insecurity
- 4.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 5.2%Food insecurity
- 3.0%SNAP enrollment
- 4.0%Transit barriers
- 4.7%No health insurance
- 14.0%Frequent mental distress
- 24.3%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Sunset Hill
The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10.
Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.6/10. At $1,536 a month, rents run 24% over what the rest of Kansas City commands. Food insecurity runs 5.2% against 17.8% nationally.
SNAP participation runs 3.0% against 15.2% nationally. It sits 1.2 points below the Jackson County average of 4.2. Severe burden reaches 11%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
The filing record is not thin: 87 evictions over 14 years of observation. The voucher gap is 14.1%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Filings peaked in 2010 at 5.9% of renter households.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground A ("Best"). 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 2.1% of renter households face a filing.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 29095007200
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 29095007200?
Census tract 29095007200 in the Sunset Hill neighborhood scores 3/10 (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 29095007200?
Median gross rent is $1,536/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 25% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 29095007200?
6.2% of residents in tract 29095007200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,019.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 29095007200?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 1th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 1th, household 6th, minority 14th, housing 7th.
Q5
Is tract 29095007200 considered part of Sunset Hill?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 29095007200 fall within Sunset Hill (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 29095007200?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 87 eviction filings across 14 validated years in tract 29095007200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.08% of renter households, peaking at 5.9% in 2010. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 29095007200 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 1.00× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings returned near baseline. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Kansas City eviction risk, MO), 2020-2021.
Q8
What share of households in tract 29095007200 struggle to pay rent?
About 5.9% 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. 4.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 29095007200 compare to Kansas City overall?
Tract 29095007200 scores 3/10, 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 29095007200 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of A. 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.
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