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Dunbar Eviction Risk: Moderate , Kansas City

Tract 29095016300 · Jackson County, MO · pop 1,933 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi

Tract 29095016300 sits in the Dunbar area of Kansas City eviction risk, MO, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.4/10. It is home to 1,933 residents. Cost burden runs 59% here against 43.0% across Jackson County.

Risk score

5.4

Moderate

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 31% Stable renters 21% Owners 48%

Tract context

Occupied units946

Renter share52.2%

SVI overall0.92

Poverty rate28.8%

Median income$36,528

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Kansas City and the region

Centroid at 39.0589, -94.5040 · click any tract to drill in

Why Dunbar scores 5.4

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly

Local 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

28.8% poverty · this tract

7.2

Supply constraint

$1,018 rent vs county FMR

2.6

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 Dunbar compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 92

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

86%Socioeconomic
87%Household composition
80%Racial/ethnic minority
87%Housing & transportation

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

0%Grade A
7%Grade B
3%Grade C
5%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)

2,297Total filings over 14 yrs
26.28%Avg annual filing rate
34.1%Peak (2005)
131Filings in 2017 (latest validated)

Filings by year 2003 to 2017

Filings dropped 31% over the past 14 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

1,233Total filings 2020-21
16.0Avg monthly (observed)
11.3Pre-pandemic baseline
1.41×Ratio to baseline

Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01

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 Dunbar. 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.

27.6%Housing insecurity
22.6%Utility-shutoff threat
32.1%Food insecurity
29.3%SNAP enrollment
18.0%Transit barriers
14.3%No health insurance
23.0%Frequent mental distress
44.0%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Dunbar

Severe burden reaches 29%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10. Set annual rent against average income of $36,528 and the ratio lands at 33%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. The poverty rate is 29%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Food insecurity runs 32.1% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 29.3% against 15.2% nationally.

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. Average gross rent is $1,018, 18% below the Kansas City average.

Court records carry 2,297 eviction filings across 14 observed years. The worst year on record was 2005, when 34.1% of renter households were served.

This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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 26.3% of renter households face a filing.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 29095016300

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 29095016300?

Census tract 29095016300 in the Dunbar 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.

What is the average rent in tract 29095016300?

Median gross rent is $1,018/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 59% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 29095016300?

28.8% of residents in tract 29095016300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,933.

How socially vulnerable is tract 29095016300?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 92th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 86th, household 87th, minority 80th, housing 87th.

Is tract 29095016300 considered part of Dunbar?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 29095016300 fall within Dunbar (neighborhood centroid within 0.9 miles, OSM data).

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 29095016300?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 2,297 eviction filings across 14 validated years in tract 29095016300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 26.28% of renter households, peaking at 34.1% in 2005. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.

Did eviction filings in tract 29095016300 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 1.41× 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.

What share of households in tract 29095016300 struggle to pay rent?

About 27.6% 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. 22.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 29095016300 compare to Kansas City overall?

Tract 29095016300 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 29095016300 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 5% 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.

Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Kansas City

Top eight tracts in Kansas City ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

Eviction Lab tract-level court records (2000-2018) and Eviction Tracking System, Princeton University. Open Data Commons Attribution license. evictionlab.org