Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #31,049 of 84,120 nationally
Berdell Hills Eviction Risk: Moderate , Normandy
Tract 29189213701 · St. Louis County, MO · pop 1,024 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi
Tract 29189213701 sits in the Berdell Hills area of Cool Valley, MO, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.1/10. It is home to 1,024 residents. Against St. Louis County at 42.0%, 90% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Risk score
5.1
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 53%
Stable renters 6%
Owners 41%
Tract context
Occupied units427
Renter share58.8%
SVI overall0.35
Poverty rate16.6%
Median income$34,464
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
81
th percentile
High
Within state
87
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Normandy and the region
Centroid at 38.7143, -90.3110 · click any tract to drill in
Why Berdell Hills scores 5.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Normandy
8.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.2
State political climate
Missouri legislature & governorship
2.1
Economic stress
16.6% poverty · this tract
4.2
Supply constraint
$727 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Normandy
3.6
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.9
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Normandy
6.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Normandy
6.2
How Berdell Hills compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 35
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 62%Socioeconomic
- 1%Household composition
- 84%Racial/ethnic minority
- 46%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.
- 2%Grade A
- 57%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
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 167Total filings 2020-21
- 2.2Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.4Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.59×Ratio to 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 Berdell Hills. 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.
- 17.9%Housing insecurity
- 13.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 19.9%Food insecurity
- 15.2%SNAP enrollment
- 13.2%Transit barriers
- 8.1%No health insurance
- 20.4%Frequent mental distress
- 35.2%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Berdell Hills
Pulling hardest the other way is supply constraint at 1/10. Severe burden reaches 25%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.5/10. On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10.
Average gross rent is $727, 27% below the Cool Valley average. It sits 1.1 points above the St. Louis County average of 4.0. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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.
That is riskier than roughly 63% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the MO average is 3.8, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter.
Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 29189213701
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 29189213701?
Census tract 29189213701 in the Berdell Hills neighborhood scores 5.1/10 (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 29189213701?
Median gross rent is $727/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 90% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 29189213701?
16.6% of residents in tract 29189213701 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,024.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 29189213701?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 35th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 62th, household 1th, minority 84th, housing 46th.
Q5
Is tract 29189213701 considered part of Berdell Hills?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 29189213701 fall within Berdell Hills (neighborhood centroid within 1.0 miles, OSM data).
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 29189213701 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 1.59× 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.
Q7
What share of households in tract 29189213701 struggle to pay rent?
About 17.9% 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. 13.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 29189213701 compare to Normandy overall?
Tract 29189213701 scores 5.1/10, lower than the parent city of Normandy at 5.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Normandy; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 29189213701 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. 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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