Central Business District KC Eviction Risk: Moderate , Kansas City

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. Against Jackson County at 43.0%, around a third of renters here are cost-burdened.

17% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.1/10.

Court records carry 425 eviction filings across 14 observed years. At $1,093 a month, rents run 12% under what the rest of Kansas City commands. The worst year on record was 2003, when 15.5% 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 10.4% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 49th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.4/10.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

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.