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Neighborhood · Ranked #48,956 of 84,120 nationally

Old Town Florissant Eviction Risk: Moderate

Tract 29189211301 · St. Louis County, MO · pop 6,645 · neighborhood within 1.2 mi

Tract 29189211301 sits in the Old Town Florissant area of Florissant eviction risk, MO, carrying an eviction-risk score of 4/10. It is home to 6,645 residents. Against St. Louis County at 42.0%, about a quarter of renters here are cost-burdened.

Risk score
4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 6% Stable renters 20% Owners 74%
Tract context
Occupied units2,496
Renter share26.1%
SVI overall0.57
Poverty rate6.9%
Median income$71,667

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
38 th percentile
Rank, 38th percentileLowHigh
#6 of 9 tracts In Old Town Florissant
Low
Within parent city
43 th percentile
Rank, 43rd percentileLowHigh
#9 of 15 tracts In Florissant
Moderate
Within county
59 th percentile
Rank, 59th percentileLowHigh
#97 of 236 tracts In St. Louis County
Elevated
Within state
64 th percentile
Rank, 64th percentileLowHigh
#604 of 1,654 tracts In Missouri
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Florissant and the region

Centroid at 38.8077, -90.3416 · click any tract to drill in

Why Old Town Florissant scores 4

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Florissant
8.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.2
State political climate
Missouri legislature & governorship
2.1
Economic stress
6.9% poverty · this tract
1.7
Supply constraint
$1,343 rent vs county FMR
6.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from Florissant
5.6
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.6
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Florissant
7.1
Housing court bias
Inherited from Florissant
5.3

How Old Town Florissant compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Old Town Florissant risk score vs. parent city / county / state4.0This tracttract 2113013.8Florissantparent city4.0Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 57

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

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)

  • 316Total filings over 8 yrs
  • 10.52%Avg annual filing rate
  • 11.0%Peak (2017)
  • 69Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2003 to 2017
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 29189211301
Filings climbed 331% over the past 8 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 546Total filings 2020-21
  • 7.1Avg monthly (observed)
  • 4.3Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 1.67×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Southwest Oregon, OR as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Old Town Florissant. 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Old Town Florissant

The dominant input is court filing pressure at 8.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.6/10.

Severe burden reaches 10%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 316 filings here across 8 tracked years.

The worst year on record was 2017, when 11.0% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 10.5% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 42% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.1/10.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. It tracks the St. Louis County average of 4.0 closely.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 29189211301

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 29189211301?

Census tract 29189211301 in the Old Town Florissant 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

What is the average rent in tract 29189211301?

Median gross rent is $1,343/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 25% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 29189211301?

6.9% of residents in tract 29189211301 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,645.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 29189211301?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 57th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 72th, household 59th, minority 57th, housing 25th.
Q5

Is tract 29189211301 considered part of Old Town Florissant?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 29189211301 fall within Old Town Florissant (neighborhood centroid within 1.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 29189211301?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 316 eviction filings across 8 validated years in tract 29189211301 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 10.52% of renter households, peaking at 11.0% in 2017. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 29189211301 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 1.67× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran above pre-pandemic norms. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Southwest Oregon eviction laws, OR), 2020-2021.
Q8

What share of households in tract 29189211301 struggle to pay rent?

About 16.1% 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. 11.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9

How does tract 29189211301 compare to Florissant overall?

Tract 29189211301 scores 4/10, right in line with the parent city of Florissant at 3.8/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Florissant eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Florissant

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

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