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Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally

Holly Hills Eviction Risk: Lower , St. Louis

Tract 29510101300 · St. Louis city, MO · pop 3,542 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi

Tract 29510101300 sits in the Holly Hills area of St. Louis, MO, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3/10. It is home to 3,542 residents. Cost burden runs 14% here against 41.6% across St. Louis City.

Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 6% Stable renters 41% Owners 53%
Tract context
Occupied units1,959
Renter share47.6%
SVI overall0.36
Poverty rate9.9%
Median income$71,053

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 2 tracts In Holly Hills
Very Low
Within parent city
2 th percentile
Rank, 2nd percentileLowHigh
#102 of 104 tracts In St. Louis
Very Low
Within county
15 th percentile
Rank, 15th percentileLowHigh
#89 of 104 tracts In St. Louis city
Very Low
Within state
33 th percentile
Rank, 33rd percentileLowHigh
#1,113 of 1,654 tracts In Missouri
Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across St. Louis and the region

Centroid at 38.5666, -90.2642 · click any tract to drill in

Why Holly Hills scores 3

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from St. Louis
7.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
8.3
State political climate
Missouri legislature & governorship
2.1
Economic stress
9.9% poverty · this tract
2.5
Supply constraint
$1,023 rent vs county FMR
3.4
Rent control risk
Inherited from St. Louis
2.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from St. Louis
5.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from St. Louis
5.0

How Holly Hills compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Holly Hills risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.0This tracttract 1013004.2St. Louisparent city4.4Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 36

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)

  • 362Total filings over 13 yrs
  • 4.01%Avg annual filing rate
  • 6.5%Peak (2012)
  • 32Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2004 to 2017
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 29510101300
Filings climbed 28% over the past 13 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 159Total filings 2020-21
  • 2.1Avg monthly (observed)
  • 2.1Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 1.00×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran near 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 Holly Hills. 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 Holly Hills

The score leans hardest on regional political climate at 8.3/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10.

It sits 1.4 points below the St. Louis City average of 4.4. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10.

Court records carry 362 eviction filings across 13 observed years. SNAP participation runs 8.0% against 15.2% nationally.

The worst year on record was 2012, when 6.5% of renter households were served. 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.

In a typical year about 4.0% of renter households face a filing. 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 4.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $71,053, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Average gross rent is $1,023, close to the St. Louis average. 48% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 29510101300

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 29510101300?

Census tract 29510101300 in the Holly Hills neighborhood scores 3/10 (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 29510101300?

Median gross rent is $1,023/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 14% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 29510101300?

9.9% of residents in tract 29510101300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,542.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 29510101300?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 36th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 36th, household 51th, minority 43th, housing 30th.
Q5

Is tract 29510101300 considered part of Holly Hills?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 29510101300 fall within Holly Hills (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 29510101300?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 362 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 29510101300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.01% of renter households, peaking at 6.5% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 29510101300 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 1.00× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings returned near baseline. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Southwest Oregon eviction laws, OR), 2020-2021.
Q8

What share of households in tract 29510101300 struggle to pay rent?

About 11.2% 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. 8.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9

How does tract 29510101300 compare to St. Louis overall?

Tract 29510101300 scores 3/10, lower than the parent city of St. Louis at 4.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from St. Louis eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q10

Was tract 29510101300 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

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

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