Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #42,813 of 84,120 nationally
Princeton Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , St. Louis
Tract 29510102400 · St. Louis city, MO · pop 2,636 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
With a score of 4.4/10, tract 29510102400 in the Princeton Heights area of St. Louis, MO reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 2,636. roughly one in four of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well below the St. Louis City average of 41.6%.
Risk score
4.4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 9%
Stable renters 29%
Owners 62%
Tract context
Occupied units1,058
Renter share37.8%
SVI overall0.60
Poverty rate19.8%
Median income$54,495
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
45
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
45
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
73
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across St. Louis and the region
Centroid at 38.5772, -90.2779 · click any tract to drill in
Why Princeton Heights scores 4.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal 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
19.8% poverty · this tract
4.9
Supply constraint
$1,155 rent vs county FMR
4.5
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 Princeton Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 60
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 68%Socioeconomic
- 75%Household composition
- 57%Racial/ethnic minority
- 26%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
- 100%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)
- 297Total filings over 13 yrs
- 4.81%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.9%Peak (2008)
- 14Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 71Total filings 2020-21
- 0.9Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.6Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.57×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
Within Princeton Heights. 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.
- 15.1%Housing insecurity
- 11.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 15.8%Food insecurity
- 12.9%SNAP enrollment
- 9.9%Transit barriers
- 9.1%No health insurance
- 19.2%Frequent mental distress
- 34.1%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Princeton Heights
The dominant input is regional political climate at 8.3/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10.
Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10. The poverty rate is 20%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
At $1,155 a month, rents run 16% over what the rest of St. Louis commands. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 297 filings here across 13 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2008, when 6.9% of renter households were served.
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 4.8% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 49% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 6.4/10 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.
Frequently asked
About tract 29510102400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 29510102400?
Census tract 29510102400 in the Princeton Heights neighborhood scores 4.4/10 (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 29510102400?
Median gross rent is $1,155/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 24% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 29510102400?
19.8% of residents in tract 29510102400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,636.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 29510102400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 60th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 68th, household 75th, minority 57th, housing 26th.
Q5
Is tract 29510102400 considered part of Princeton Heights?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 29510102400 fall within Princeton Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 29510102400?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 297 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 29510102400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.81% of renter households, peaking at 6.9% in 2008. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 29510102400 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.57× 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.
Q8
What share of households in tract 29510102400 struggle to pay rent?
About 15.1% 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. 11.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 29510102400 compare to St. Louis overall?
Tract 29510102400 scores 4.4/10, right in line with 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 29510102400 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.
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