Kansas City Eviction Risk: Lower

At $1,684 a month, rents run 36% over what the rest of Kansas City commands. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10.

The voucher gap is 25.1%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. 28% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Platte County average of 36.4%. Running cool, state political climate reads 2.1/10.

Food insecurity runs 6.7% against 17.8% nationally. 13% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

SNAP participation runs 4.3% against 15.2% nationally. Court records carry 64 eviction filings across 13 observed years. It sits 0.7 points below the Platte County average of 3.9.

The worst year on record was 2008, when 7.3% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 7.3% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 25th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

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.