Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #54,273 of 84,120 nationally
Tower Homes Eviction Risk: Lower , Kansas City
Tract 29095009400 · Jackson County, MO · pop 4,518 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
Census tract 29095009400 covers part of the Tower Homes area of Kansas City, MO, and scores 3.7/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 4,518. The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10.
Risk score
3.7
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 19%
Stable renters 28%
Owners 53%
Tract context
Occupied units2,102
Renter share47.0%
SVI overall0.42
Poverty rate10.1%
Median income$72,500
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
32
th percentile
Low
Within county
43
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
56
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Kansas City and the region
Centroid at 38.9811, -94.5855 · click any tract to drill in
Why Tower Homes scores 3.7
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
10.1% poverty · this tract
2.5
Supply constraint
$973 rent vs county FMR
2.2
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 Tower Homes compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 42
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 52%Socioeconomic
- 2%Household composition
- 53%Racial/ethnic minority
- 82%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
- 4%Grade B
- 37%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)
- 1,476Total filings over 14 yrs
- 10.40%Avg annual filing rate
- 17.8%Peak (2005)
- 108Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 17% over the past 14 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 755Total filings 2020-21
- 9.8Avg monthly (observed)
- 7.4Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.32×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above 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 Tower Homes. 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.
- 13.8%Housing insecurity
- 9.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 13.8%Food insecurity
- 9.6%SNAP enrollment
- 8.4%Transit barriers
- 8.7%No health insurance
- 18.7%Frequent mental distress
- 31.4%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Tower Homes
Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. Severe burden reaches 19%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running cool, state political climate reads 2.1/10.
At $973 a month, rents run 21% under what the rest of Kansas City commands. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,476 filings here across 14 tracked years.
The worst year on record was 2005, when 17.8% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 10.4% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 35% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 4.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $72,500, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
Rent takes 30% or more of income for 40% of renters. It tracks the Jackson County average of 4.2 closely.
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 29095009400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 29095009400?
Census tract 29095009400 in the Tower Homes neighborhood scores 3.7/10 (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 29095009400?
Median gross rent is $973/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 40% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 29095009400?
10.1% of residents in tract 29095009400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,518.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 29095009400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 42th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 52th, household 2th, minority 53th, housing 82th.
Q5
Is tract 29095009400 considered part of Tower Homes?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 29095009400 fall within Tower Homes (neighborhood centroid within 0.8 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 29095009400?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 1,476 eviction filings across 14 validated years in tract 29095009400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 10.40% of renter households, peaking at 17.8% in 2005. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 29095009400 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 1.32× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran above pre-pandemic norms. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Kansas City eviction risk, MO), 2020-2021.
Q8
What share of households in tract 29095009400 struggle to pay rent?
About 13.8% 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. 9.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 29095009400 compare to Kansas City overall?
Tract 29095009400 scores 3.7/10, 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 29095009400 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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