Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Saint Louis Hills Eviction Risk: Lower , St. Louis
Tract 29510103100 · St. Louis city, MO · pop 3,072 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
Tract 29510103100 sits in the Saint Louis Hills area of St. Louis, MO, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3/10. It is home to 3,072 residents. The clearest offset is economic stress at 1/10.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 20%
Stable renters 42%
Owners 38%
Tract context
Occupied units2,092
Renter share62.3%
SVI overall0.14
Poverty rate4.1%
Median income$59,674
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
17
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
0
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
33
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across St. Louis and the region
Centroid at 38.5885, -90.3106 · click any tract to drill in
Why Saint Louis Hills scores 3
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
4.1% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$861 rent vs county FMR
2.1
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 Saint Louis Hills compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 14
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 28%Socioeconomic
- 2%Household composition
- 31%Racial/ethnic minority
- 43%Housing & transportation
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.
- 45%Grade A
- 24%Grade B
- 19%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)
- 568Total filings over 13 yrs
- 5.23%Avg annual filing rate
- 10.8%Peak (2015)
- 53Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 783% over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 143Total filings 2020-21
- 1.9Avg monthly (observed)
- 4.9Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.38×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 Saint Louis 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.
- 10.6%Housing insecurity
- 7.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 10.6%Food insecurity
- 7.7%SNAP enrollment
- 6.9%Transit barriers
- 6.7%No health insurance
- 16.4%Frequent mental distress
- 29.8%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Saint Louis Hills
On the high side, regional political climate reads 8.3/10. Against St. Louis City at 41.6%, 33% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Running hot, 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. 14% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 568 filings here across 13 tracked years. At $861 a month, rents run 14% under what the rest of St. Louis commands.
SNAP participation runs 7.7% against 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity runs 10.6% against 17.8% nationally.
Filings peaked in 2015 at 10.8% of renter households. 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 5.2% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
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 29510103100
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 29510103100?
Census tract 29510103100 in the Saint Louis 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 29510103100?
Median gross rent is $861/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 33% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 29510103100?
4.1% of residents in tract 29510103100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,072.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 29510103100?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 14th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 28th, household 2th, minority 31th, housing 43th.
Q5
Is tract 29510103100 considered part of Saint Louis Hills?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 29510103100 fall within Saint Louis Hills (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 29510103100?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 568 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 29510103100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.23% of renter households, peaking at 10.8% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 29510103100 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.38× 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 29510103100 struggle to pay rent?
About 10.6% 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. 7.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 29510103100 compare to St. Louis overall?
Tract 29510103100 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 29510103100 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.
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