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Neighborhood · Ranked #41,206 of 84,120 nationally

Ellendale Eviction Risk: Moderate , Maplewood

Tract 29189217200 · St. Louis County, MO · pop 1,927 · neighborhood within 1.2 mi

With a score of 4.5/10, tract 29189217200 in the Ellendale area of Maplewood, MO reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 1,927. Against St. Louis County at 42.0%, 21% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Risk score
4.5
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 10% Stable renters 37% Owners 53%
Tract context
Occupied units978
Renter share46.8%
SVI overall0.25
Poverty rate9.4%
Median income$66,064

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#3 of 3 tracts In Ellendale
Very Low
Within parent city
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#3 of 3 tracts In Maplewood
Very Low
Within county
66 th percentile
Rank, 66th percentileLowHigh
#81 of 236 tracts In St. Louis County
Elevated
Within state
75 th percentile
Rank, 75th percentileLowHigh
#419 of 1,654 tracts In Missouri
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Maplewood and the region

Centroid at 38.6181, -90.3280 · click any tract to drill in

Why Ellendale scores 4.5

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Maplewood
8.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.2
State political climate
Missouri legislature & governorship
2.1
Economic stress
9.4% poverty · this tract
2.4
Supply constraint
$868 rent vs county FMR
2.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from Maplewood
2.9
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
1.9
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Maplewood
9.4
Housing court bias
Inherited from Maplewood
4.1

How Ellendale compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Ellendale risk score vs. parent city / county / state4.5This tracttract 2172004.0Maplewoodparent city4.0Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 25

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. 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)

  • 127Total filings over 8 yrs
  • 2.95%Avg annual filing rate
  • 4.6%Peak (2012)
  • 20Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2003 to 2017
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 29189217200
Filings climbed 33% over the past 8 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 183Total filings 2020-21
  • 2.4Avg monthly (observed)
  • 1.6Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 1.52×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 Ellendale. 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 Ellendale

The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.4/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.5/10.

Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10. The severe-burden share is 11%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. SNAP participation runs 6.4% against 15.2% nationally.

Food insecurity runs 9.2% against 17.8% nationally. Court records carry 127 eviction filings across 8 observed years. At $868 a month, rents run 11% under what the rest of Maplewood commands.

The worst year on record was 2012, when 4.6% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 3.0% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 51st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Against average income of $66,064, annual rent is just 16%.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 29189217200

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 29189217200?

Census tract 29189217200 in the Ellendale neighborhood scores 4.5/10 (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 29189217200?

Median gross rent is $868/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 21% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 29189217200?

9.4% of residents in tract 29189217200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,927.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 29189217200?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 25th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 26th, household 11th, minority 59th, housing 41th.
Q5

Is tract 29189217200 considered part of Ellendale?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 29189217200 fall within Ellendale (neighborhood centroid within 1.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 29189217200?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 127 eviction filings across 8 validated years in tract 29189217200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.95% of renter households, peaking at 4.6% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 29189217200 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 1.52× 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 29189217200 struggle to pay rent?

About 9.9% 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. 7.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9

How does tract 29189217200 compare to Maplewood overall?

Tract 29189217200 scores 4.5/10, higher than the parent city of Maplewood at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Maplewood; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q10

Was tract 29189217200 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 7% 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 Maplewood

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

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