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Clifton Heights Eviction Risk: Lower , St. Louis

Tract 29510103700 · St. Louis city, MO · pop 2,544 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi

Tract 29510103700 sits in the Clifton Heights area of St. Louis, MO, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3/10. It is home to 2,544 residents. Against St. Louis City at 41.6%, 18% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 5% Stable renters 21% Owners 74%
Tract context
Occupied units1,241
Renter share25.6%
SVI overall0.14
Poverty rate3.8%
Median income$77,983

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 2 tracts In Clifton Heights
Very Low
Within parent city
11 th percentile
Rank, 11th percentileLowHigh
#93 of 104 tracts In St. Louis
Very Low
Within county
6 th percentile
Rank, 6th percentileLowHigh
#98 of 104 tracts In St. Louis city
Very Low
Within state
33 th percentile
Rank, 33rd percentileLowHigh
#1,113 of 1,654 tracts In Missouri
Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across St. Louis and the region

Centroid at 38.6080, -90.2919 · 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
3.8% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$898 rent vs county FMR
2.4
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.
Clifton Heights risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.0This tracttract 1037004.2St. Louisparent city4.4Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 14

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

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.

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)

  • 213Total filings over 13 yrs
  • 3.70%Avg annual filing rate
  • 5.3%Peak (2006)
  • 11Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2004 to 2017
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 29510103700
Filings dropped 21% over the past 13 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 27Total filings 2020-21
  • 0.4Avg monthly (observed)
  • 1.3Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.26×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic 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 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Clifton Heights

The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10. Running hot, regional political climate reads 8.3/10.

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10. It sits 1.4 points below the St. Louis City average of 4.4. Severe burden reaches 11%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

SNAP participation runs 6.2% against 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity runs 8.9% against 17.8% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 213 evictions over 13 years of observation.

Average gross rent is $898, 10% below the St. Louis average. The worst year on record was 2006, when 5.3% 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 3.7% 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 29510103700

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 29510103700?

Census tract 29510103700 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.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 29510103700?

Median gross rent is $898/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 18% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 29510103700?

3.8% of residents in tract 29510103700 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,544.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 29510103700?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 14th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 18th, household 21th, minority 32th, housing 20th.
Q5

Is tract 29510103700 considered part of Clifton Heights?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 29510103700 fall within Clifton Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 29510103700?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 213 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 29510103700 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.70% of renter households, peaking at 5.3% in 2006. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 29510103700 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.26× 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 29510103700 struggle to pay rent?

About 9.8% 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. 6.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9

How does tract 29510103700 compare to St. Louis overall?

Tract 29510103700 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 29510103700 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.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in St. Louis

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

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