Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #63,308 of 84,120 nationally
Volker Eviction Risk: Lower , Kansas City
Tract 29095016802 · Jackson County, MO · pop 1,807 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
29095016802 is a census tract in the Volker area of Kansas City, MO. It scores 3.2/10 for landlords. Population here is 1,807. The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10.
Risk score
3.2
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 16%
Stable renters 19%
Owners 65%
Tract context
Occupied units717
Renter share35.6%
SVI overall0.04
Poverty rate6.3%
Median income$81,985
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
18
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
31
th percentile
Low
Within state
40
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Kansas City and the region
Centroid at 39.0538, -94.6038 · click any tract to drill in
Why Volker scores 3.2
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
6.3% poverty · this tract
1.6
Supply constraint
$1,289 rent vs county FMR
4.6
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 Volker compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 4
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 5%Socioeconomic
- 2%Household composition
- 34%Racial/ethnic minority
- 33%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
- 0%Grade B
- 100%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
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 25Total filings 2020-21
- 0.3Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.6Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.60×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Kansas City, MO as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
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.
- 8.4%Housing insecurity
- 5.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 7.1%Food insecurity
- 4.1%SNAP enrollment
- 5.2%Transit barriers
- 6.5%No health insurance
- 15.7%Frequent mental distress
- 24.3%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Volker
Severe burden reaches 22%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.6/10.
SNAP participation runs 4.1% against 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity runs 7.1% against 17.8% nationally.
Against the Jackson County average of 4.2, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points. 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.
Nationally it ranks #63,308 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.3/10.
Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. 46% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.
Average gross rent is $1,289, close to the Kansas City average. Annual rent works out to 19% of average household income of $81,985.
36% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
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 29095016802
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 29095016802?
Census tract 29095016802 in the Volker neighborhood scores 3.2/10 (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 29095016802?
Median gross rent is $1,289/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 46% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 29095016802?
6.3% of residents in tract 29095016802 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,807.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 29095016802?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 4th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 5th, household 2th, minority 34th, housing 33th.
Q5
Is tract 29095016802 considered part of Volker?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 29095016802 fall within Volker (neighborhood centroid within 0.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 29095016802 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.60× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings dropped sharply, likely a moratorium effect. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Kansas City eviction risk, MO), 2020-2021.
Q7
What share of households in tract 29095016802 struggle to pay rent?
About 8.4% 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. 5.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 29095016802 compare to Kansas City overall?
Tract 29095016802 scores 3.2/10, 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.
Q9
Was tract 29095016802 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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