Within parent city
100
th percentile
Very High
Census Tract · Ranked #56,048 of 84,120 nationally
Crestwood Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 29189221000 · St. Louis County, MO · pop 3,024 · 50% of tract blocks fall in Crestwood
With a score of 3.6/10, tract 29189221000 in Crestwood, MO reads lower for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,024 residents. The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 8.5/10.
Risk score
3.6
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 18%
Stable renters 22%
Owners 60%
Tract context
Occupied units1,350
Renter share39.5%
SVI overall0.37
Poverty rate8.4%
Median income$66,944
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
53
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
53
th percentile
Moderate
National
33
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Crestwood and the region
Centroid at 38.5621, -90.3958 · click any tract to drill in
Why Crestwood scores 3.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Crestwood
6.6
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.2
State political climate
Missouri legislature & governorship
2.1
Economic stress
8.4% poverty · this tract
2.1
Supply constraint
$1,281 rent vs county FMR
5.5
Rent control risk
Inherited from Crestwood
3.3
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Crestwood
3.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Crestwood
3.1
How Crestwood compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 37
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 44%Socioeconomic
- 64%Household composition
- 45%Racial/ethnic minority
- 16%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
- 4%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)
- 143Total filings over 8 yrs
- 4.59%Avg annual filing rate
- 7.1%Peak (2006)
- 7Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 61% over the past 8 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 36Total filings 2020-21
- 0.5Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.2Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.39×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.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 13.0%Housing insecurity
- 9.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 13.0%Food insecurity
- 10.5%SNAP enrollment
- 8.4%Transit barriers
- 7.3%No health insurance
- 17.8%Frequent mental distress
- 33.2%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Crestwood
Average gross rent is $1,281, 27% above the Crestwood average. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.1/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 2.1/10.
Court records carry 143 eviction filings across 8 observed years. Filings peaked in 2006 at 7.1% of renter households.
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 4.6% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #56,048 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4.3/10. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 45% of renters.
It tracks the St. Louis County average of 4.0 closely. Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $66,944.
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 29189221000
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 29189221000?
Census tract 29189221000 in Crestwood scores 3.6/10 (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 29189221000?
Median gross rent is $1,281/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 45% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 29189221000?
8.4% of residents in tract 29189221000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,024.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 29189221000?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 37th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 44th, household 64th, minority 45th, housing 16th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 29189221000?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 143 eviction filings across 8 validated years in tract 29189221000 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.59% of renter households, peaking at 7.1% in 2006. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 29189221000 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.39× 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.
Q7
What share of households in tract 29189221000 struggle to pay rent?
About 13.0% 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. 9.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 29189221000 compare to Crestwood overall?
Tract 29189221000 scores 3.6/10, higher than the parent city of Crestwood at 3.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Crestwood; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 29189221000 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 Crestwood
Top eight tracts in Crestwood ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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