Patch Eviction Risk: Moderate , St. Louis

Severe burden reaches 27%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The score leans hardest on economic stress at 8.8/10. The poverty rate is 35%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 8.3/10. Food insecurity runs 31.1% against 17.8% nationally.

Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10. Housing insecurity runs 26.1% against 14.2% nationally.

It sits 1.2 points above the St. Louis City average of 4.4. Court records carry 1,450 eviction filings across 13 observed years. Filings peaked in 2012 at 16.2% of renter households.

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 12.5% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 73% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 7.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

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.