Neighborhood · Ranked #48,956 of 84,120 nationally
Swope Parkway-Elmwood Eviction Risk: Moderate , Kansas City
Tract 29095980101 ·
Jackson County, MO · pop 3 · neighborhood within 1.3 mi
With a score of 4/10, tract 29095980101 in the Swope Parkway-Elmwood area of Kansas City, MO reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1.5/10.
Risk score
4
Moderate
Confidence 45% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 0%Stable renters 0%Owners 100%
Tract context
SVI overall-10.00
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0th percentile
#2 of 2 tracts In Swope Parkway-Elmwood
Very Low
Within parent city
40th percentile
#99 of 163 tracts In Kansas City
Low
Within county
50th percentile
#113 of 227 tracts In Jackson County
Moderate
Within state
64th percentile
#604 of 1,654 tracts In Missouri
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Kansas City and the region
Centroid at 39.0017, -94.5221 · click any tract to drill in
Why Swope Parkway-Elmwood scores 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
this tract poverty rate
3.0
Supply constraint
tract rent vs county FMR
5.0
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 Swope Parkway-Elmwood compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: -1,000
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
-1,000%Socioeconomic
-1,000%Household composition
-1,000%Racial/ethnic minority
-1,000%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. 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
0%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)
6Total filings over 5 yrs
0.00%Avg annual filing rate
100.0%Peak (2010)
1Filings in 2012 (latest validated)
Filings by year2003 to 2017
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
0Total filings 2020-21
0.0Avg monthly (observed)
0.0Pre-pandemic baseline
0.00×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–20212020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Kansas City, MO as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Swope Parkway-Elmwood. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Swope Parkway-Elmwood
Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 2.1/10. Court records carry 6 eviction filings across 5 observed years.
Filings peaked in 2010 at 100.0% of renter households. 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.
Nationally it ranks #48,956 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Model confidence here is 45%, lower than typical because some ACS inputs for this tract carry wide margins of error, so read the score as a band, not a point. 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 29095980101
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 29095980101?
Census tract 29095980101 in the Swope Parkway-Elmwood neighborhood scores 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.
Q2
How socially vulnerable is tract 29095980101?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the -1000th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic -1000th, household -1000th, minority -1000th, housing -1000th.
Q3
Is tract 29095980101 considered part of Swope Parkway-Elmwood?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 29095980101 fall within Swope Parkway-Elmwood (neighborhood centroid within 1.3 miles, OSM data).
Q4
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 29095980101?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 6 eviction filings across 5 validated years in tract 29095980101 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 0.00% of renter households, peaking at 100.0% in 2010. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q5
Did eviction filings in tract 29095980101 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.00× 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.
Q6
How does tract 29095980101 compare to Kansas City overall?
Tract 29095980101 scores 4/10, right in line with 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.
Q7
Was tract 29095980101 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 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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