Boulevard Heights Eviction Risk: Lower , St. Louis
Tract 29510102300 · St. Louis city, MO · pop 2,568 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
29510102300 is a census tract in the Boulevard Heights area of St. Louis, MO. It scores 3/10 for landlords. Population here is 2,568. Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1.1/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across St. Louis and the region
Centroid at 38.5642, -90.2834 · click any tract to drill in
Why Boulevard Heights scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Boulevard Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 33
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 35%Socioeconomic
- 56%Household composition
- 66%Racial/ethnic minority
- 17%Housing & transportation
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
- 17%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.
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)
- 71Total filings over 13 yrs
- 3.28%Avg annual filing rate
- 7.2%Peak (2010)
- 6Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 43Total filings 2020-21
- 0.6Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.5Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.10×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran near baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Southwest Oregon, OR as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Boulevard Heights. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 11.5%Housing insecurity
- 8.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 11.9%Food insecurity
- 8.4%SNAP enrollment
- 7.4%Transit barriers
- 7.8%No health insurance
- 16.9%Frequent mental distress
- 32.0%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Boulevard Heights
On the high side, regional political climate reads 8.3/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10. Against the St. Louis City average of 4.4, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.4 points.
Severe burden reaches 14%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 71 filings here across 13 tracked years. At $1,104 a month, rents run 11% over what the rest of St. Louis commands.
Filings peaked in 2010 at 7.2% of renter households. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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 3.3% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.
Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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