Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally
Blue Hills Eviction Risk: Moderate , Kansas City
Tract 29095007500 · Jackson County, MO · pop 2,828 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
With a score of 5.4/10, tract 29095007500 in the Blue Hills area of Kansas City, MO reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Severe burden reaches 33%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 28%
Stable renters 33%
Owners 39%
Tract context
Occupied units922
Renter share60.7%
SVI overall0.38
Poverty rate27.6%
Median income$56,750
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
74
th percentile
Elevated
Within county
93
th percentile
Very High
Within state
96
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Kansas City and the region
Centroid at 39.0341, -94.5688 · click any tract to drill in
Why Blue Hills scores 5.4
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
27.6% poverty · this tract
6.9
Supply constraint
$1,296 rent vs county FMR
4.6
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 Blue Hills compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 38
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 68%Socioeconomic
- 3%Household composition
- 67%Racial/ethnic minority
- 39%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
- 28%Grade B
- 66%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)
- 620Total filings over 14 yrs
- 8.65%Avg annual filing rate
- 15.9%Peak (2003)
- 36Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 56% over the past 14 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 168Total filings 2020-21
- 2.2Avg monthly (observed)
- 3.1Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.71×Ratio to 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 Blue Hills. 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.
- 17.4%Housing insecurity
- 12.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 20.2%Food insecurity
- 15.0%SNAP enrollment
- 13.2%Transit barriers
- 9.3%No health insurance
- 24.2%Frequent mental distress
- 36.1%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Blue Hills
The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10.
The poverty rate is 28%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. On the softer side, 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 620 eviction filings across 14 observed years.
The worst year on record was 2003, when 15.9% 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 8.7% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 70% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4.5/10.
Statewide the MO average is 3.8, so this tract runs 1.6 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
Rent takes 30% or more of income for 46% of renters.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 29095007500
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 29095007500?
Census tract 29095007500 in the Blue Hills 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 29095007500?
Median gross rent is $1,296/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 46% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 29095007500?
27.6% of residents in tract 29095007500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,828.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 29095007500?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 38th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 68th, household 3th, minority 67th, housing 39th.
Q5
Is tract 29095007500 considered part of Blue Hills?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 29095007500 fall within Blue Hills (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 29095007500?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 620 eviction filings across 14 validated years in tract 29095007500 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 8.65% of renter households, peaking at 15.9% in 2003. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 29095007500 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.71× 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 29095007500 struggle to pay rent?
About 17.4% 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. 12.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 29095007500 compare to Kansas City overall?
Tract 29095007500 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 29095007500 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.
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