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Clifton Heights Eviction Risk: Lower , St. Louis

Tract 29510103600 · St. Louis city, MO · pop 1,360 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi

Tract 29510103600 sits in the Clifton Heights area of St. Louis, MO, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3/10. Population here is 1,360. 27% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Risk score

Lower

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 6% Stable renters 11% Owners 83%

Tract context

Occupied units572

Renter share16.8%

SVI overall0.11

Poverty rate5.9%

Median income$76,429

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across St. Louis and the region

Centroid at 38.6169, -90.2893 · click any tract to drill in

Why Clifton Heights 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

5.9% poverty · this tract

1.5

Supply constraint

$1,311 rent vs county FMR

5.8

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 Clifton Heights compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 11

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

10%Socioeconomic
61%Household composition
20%Racial/ethnic minority
7%Housing & transportation

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

0%Grade A
34%Grade B
56%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)

172Total filings over 13 yrs
8.04%Avg annual filing rate
16.7%Peak (2016)
14Filings in 2017 (latest validated)

Filings by year 2004 to 2017

Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 13 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

57Total filings 2020-21
0.7Avg monthly (observed)
1.1Pre-pandemic baseline
0.70×Ratio to baseline

Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01

Pandemic filings ran below 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 Clifton 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.

8.9%Housing insecurity
6.2%Utility-shutoff threat
8.2%Food insecurity
5.4%SNAP enrollment
5.8%Transit barriers
6.1%No health insurance
15.9%Frequent mental distress
26.4%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Clifton Heights

Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1.5/10. Average gross rent is $1,311, 31% above the St. Louis average. On the high side, regional political climate reads 8.3/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10. It sits 1.4 points below the St. Louis City average of 4.4. SNAP participation runs 5.4% against 15.2% nationally.

Food insecurity runs 8.2% against 17.8% nationally. Against St. Louis City at 41.6%, 36% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Court records carry 172 eviction filings across 13 observed years. The worst year on record was 2016, when 16.7% of renter households were served.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 8.0% of renter households face a filing.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 29510103600

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 29510103600?

Census tract 29510103600 in the Clifton Heights 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.

What is the average rent in tract 29510103600?

Median gross rent is $1,311/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 36% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 29510103600?

5.9% of residents in tract 29510103600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,360.

How socially vulnerable is tract 29510103600?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 11th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 10th, household 61th, minority 20th, housing 7th.

Is tract 29510103600 considered part of Clifton Heights?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 29510103600 fall within Clifton Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 29510103600?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 172 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 29510103600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 8.04% of renter households, peaking at 16.7% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.

Did eviction filings in tract 29510103600 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.70× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Southwest Oregon eviction laws, OR), 2020-2021.

What share of households in tract 29510103600 struggle to pay rent?

About 8.9% 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. 6.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 29510103600 compare to St. Louis overall?

Tract 29510103600 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 29510103600 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 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

Highest-risk tracts in St. Louis

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

Eviction Lab tract-level court records (2000-2018) and Eviction Tracking System, Princeton University. Open Data Commons Attribution license. evictionlab.org