South Town Fork Creek Eviction Risk: Moderate , Kansas City

The score leans hardest on economic stress at 9.1/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 28.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

The severe-burden share is 26%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The poverty rate is 36%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $42,844, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10.

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. Against the Jackson County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points.

Court records carry 1,574 eviction filings across 14 observed years. The worst year on record was 2005, when 25.9% 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 17.9% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 70% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

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.