Varsity neighborhood Eviction Risk: Lower , University City
Tract 29189216201 · St. Louis County, MO · pop 3,910 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
29189216201 is a census tract in the Varsity neighborhood area of University City, MO. It scores 3/10 for landlords. It is home to 3,910 residents. roughly one in four of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly below the St. Louis County average of 42.0%.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across University City and the region
Centroid at 38.6578, -90.3272 · click any tract to drill in
Why Varsity neighborhood scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Varsity neighborhood compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 2
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 10%Socioeconomic
- 8%Household composition
- 29%Racial/ethnic minority
- 3%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: A: Best
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 97%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.
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)
- 160Total filings 2020-21
- 2.1Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.6Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.30×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Southwest Oregon, OR as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Varsity neighborhood. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 7.8%Housing insecurity
- 5.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 7.2%Food insecurity
- 5.0%SNAP enrollment
- 5.3%Transit barriers
- 5.1%No health insurance
- 14.7%Frequent mental distress
- 26.0%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Varsity neighborhood
The clearest offset is economic stress at 1.4/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.5/10. On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10.
The voucher gap is 23.9%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Food insecurity runs 7.2% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 5.0% against 15.2% nationally.
Against the St. Louis County average of 4.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points. Average gross rent is $1,505, 14% above the University City average.
This ground was mapped A ("Best") 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. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Against average income of $138,602, annual rent is just 13%. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.
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.
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Highest-risk tracts in University City
Top eight tracts in University City ranked by composite eviction-risk score.