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Wydown Skinker Eviction Risk: Lower , Clayton

Tract 29189216300 · St. Louis County, MO · pop 6,896 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi

29189216300 is a census tract in the Wydown Skinker area of Clayton, MO. It scores 3.7/10 for landlords. It is home to 6,896 residents. The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 8.7/10.

Risk score
3.7
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 21% Stable renters 36% Owners 43%
Tract context
Occupied units1,305
Renter share56.9%
SVI overall0.10
Poverty rate7.1%
Median income$87,569

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 2 tracts In Wydown Skinker
Very High
Within parent city
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 4 tracts In Clayton
Very High
Within county
55 th percentile
Rank, 55th percentileLowHigh
#108 of 236 tracts In St. Louis County
Moderate
Within state
56 th percentile
Rank, 56th percentileLowHigh
#733 of 1,654 tracts In Missouri
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Clayton and the region

Centroid at 38.6424, -90.3108 · click any tract to drill in

Why Wydown Skinker scores 3.7

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Clayton
8.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.2
State political climate
Missouri legislature & governorship
2.1
Economic stress
7.1% poverty · this tract
1.8
Supply constraint
$1,165 rent vs county FMR
4.6
Rent control risk
Inherited from Clayton
3.8
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.2
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Clayton
8.7
Housing court bias
Inherited from Clayton
4.1

How Wydown Skinker compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Wydown Skinker risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.7This tracttract 2163004.0Claytonparent city4.0Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 10

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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.

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

Historic baseline (2000–2018)

  • 47Total filings over 7 yrs
  • 1.03%Avg annual filing rate
  • 1.6%Peak (2004)
  • 3Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2003 to 2017
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 29189216300
Filings dropped 57% over the past 8 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 14Total filings 2020-21
  • 0.2Avg monthly (observed)
  • 0.1Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 2.33×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 Wydown Skinker. 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 Wydown Skinker

Average gross rent is $1,165, 31% below the Clayton average. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.5/10. On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10.

12% 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 5.0% against 15.2% nationally. Cost burden runs 37% here against 42.0% across St. Louis County.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 47 filings here across 7 tracked years. Food insecurity runs 9.8% against 17.8% nationally. The worst year on record was 2004, when 1.6% of renter households were served.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground A ("Best"). 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. In a typical year about 1.0% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 35th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.9/10.

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 29189216300

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 29189216300?

Census tract 29189216300 in the Wydown Skinker neighborhood scores 3.7/10 (Lower 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 29189216300?

Median gross rent is $1,165/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 37% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 29189216300?

7.1% of residents in tract 29189216300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,896.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 29189216300?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 10th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 13th, household 4th, minority 49th, housing 31th.
Q5

Is tract 29189216300 considered part of Wydown Skinker?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 29189216300 fall within Wydown Skinker (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 29189216300?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 47 eviction filings across 7 validated years in tract 29189216300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.03% of renter households, peaking at 1.6% in 2004. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 29189216300 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 2.33× 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 29189216300 struggle to pay rent?

About 9.0% 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. 5.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9

How does tract 29189216300 compare to Clayton overall?

Tract 29189216300 scores 3.7/10, lower than the parent city of Clayton at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Clayton eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q10

Was tract 29189216300 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of A. 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.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Clayton

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

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