Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #44,239 of 84,120 nationally
Franz Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Richmond Heights
Tract 29189216800 · St. Louis County, MO · pop 3,272 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
Census tract 29189216800 covers part of the Franz Park area of Richmond Heights, MO, and scores 4.3/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,272. At $918 a month, rents run 41% under what the rest of Richmond Heights commands.
Risk score
4.3
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 14%
Stable renters 31%
Owners 55%
Tract context
Occupied units1,507
Renter share44.8%
SVI overall0.07
Poverty rate9.3%
Median income$76,458
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
100
th percentile
Very High
Within county
64
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
71
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Richmond Heights and the region
Centroid at 38.6271, -90.3149 · click any tract to drill in
Why Franz Park scores 4.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Richmond Heights
8.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.2
State political climate
Missouri legislature & governorship
2.1
Economic stress
9.3% poverty · this tract
2.3
Supply constraint
$918 rent vs county FMR
2.6
Rent control risk
Inherited from Richmond Heights
3.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.8
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Richmond Heights
9.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Richmond Heights
3.3
How Franz Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 7
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 20%Socioeconomic
- 2%Household composition
- 22%Racial/ethnic minority
- 31%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.
- 0%Grade A
- 100%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
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 153Total filings over 8 yrs
- 2.48%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.5%Peak (2005)
- 12Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 8 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 69Total filings 2020-21
- 0.9Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.5Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.59×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Southwest Oregon, OR as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
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.
- 8.8%Housing insecurity
- 7.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 8.5%Food insecurity
- 6.5%SNAP enrollment
- 6.1%Transit barriers
- 5.3%No health insurance
- 15.7%Frequent mental distress
- 27.7%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Franz Park
What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9/10. Against St. Louis County at 42.0%, 31% of renters here are cost-burdened. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.5/10.
On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10. 16% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Food insecurity runs 8.5% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 6.5% against 15.2% nationally. Court records carry 153 eviction filings across 8 observed years.
The worst year on record was 2005, when 3.5% of renter households were served. 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. In a typical year about 2.5% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #44,239 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 29189216800
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 29189216800?
Census tract 29189216800 in the Franz Park neighborhood scores 4.3/10 (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 29189216800?
Median gross rent is $918/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 31% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 29189216800?
9.3% of residents in tract 29189216800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,272.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 29189216800?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 7th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 20th, household 2th, minority 22th, housing 31th.
Q5
Is tract 29189216800 considered part of Franz Park?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 29189216800 fall within Franz Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 29189216800?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 153 eviction filings across 8 validated years in tract 29189216800 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.48% of renter households, peaking at 3.5% in 2005. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 29189216800 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.59× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings dropped sharply, likely a moratorium effect. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Southwest Oregon eviction laws, OR), 2020-2021.
Q8
What share of households in tract 29189216800 struggle to pay rent?
About 8.8% 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. 7.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 29189216800 compare to Richmond Heights overall?
Tract 29189216800 scores 4.3/10, higher than the parent city of Richmond Heights at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Richmond Heights; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q10
Was tract 29189216800 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.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Richmond Heights
Top eight tracts in Richmond Heights ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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