Varsity neighborhood Eviction Risk: Moderate , University City

The dominant input is court filing pressure at 8.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10.

18% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.8/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 278 filings here across 8 tracked years. At $1,135 a month, rents run 14% under what the rest of University City commands.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The worst year on record was 2012, when 18.8% of renter households were served.

This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for St. Louis. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 14.6% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 53% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.2/10. 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.

Annual rent works out to 26% of average household income of $51,938.

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