Marlborough Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Kansas City

80% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10.

Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. The poverty rate is 29%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

At $957 a month, rents run 23% under what the rest of Kansas City commands. Well under the midpoint, 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. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 20.1% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Against Jackson County at 43.0%, 49% of renters here are cost-burdened.

SNAP participation runs 24.8% against 15.2% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 652 filings here across 14 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2017, when 9.8% 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.

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.