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West End Eviction Risk: Moderate , St. Louis

Tract 29510105300 · St. Louis city, MO · pop 2,127 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi

Census tract 29510105300 covers part of the West End area of St. Louis, MO, and scores 5.6/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 2,127. 67% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, far above the St. Louis City average of 41.6%.

Risk score
5.6
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 49% Stable renters 24% Owners 27%
Tract context
Occupied units1,141
Renter share73.3%
SVI overall0.95
Poverty rate26.2%
Median income$26,412

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 2 tracts In West End
Very High
Within parent city
89 th percentile
Rank, 89th percentileLowHigh
#12 of 104 tracts In St. Louis
High
Within county
95 th percentile
Rank, 95th percentileLowHigh
#6 of 104 tracts In St. Louis city
Very High
Within state
98 th percentile
Rank, 98th percentileLowHigh
#29 of 1,654 tracts In Missouri
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across St. Louis and the region

Centroid at 38.6576, -90.2883 · click any tract to drill in

Why West End scores 5.6

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
26.2% poverty · this tract
6.5
Supply constraint
$669 rent vs county FMR
1.0
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 West End compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
West End risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.6This tracttract 1053004.2St. Louisparent city4.4Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 95

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)

  • 1,124Total filings over 13 yrs
  • 11.13%Avg annual filing rate
  • 16.9%Peak (2012)
  • 97Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2004 to 2017
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 29510105300
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 13 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 511Total filings 2020-21
  • 6.6Avg monthly (observed)
  • 6.8Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.97×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

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 West End. 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 West End

The main counterweight is supply constraint at 1/10. Food insecurity runs 38.0% against 17.8% nationally. Average gross rent is $669, 33% below the St. Louis average.

This is renter territory: 73% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Running hot, regional political climate reads 8.3/10. Disability prevalence runs 46.8% against 31.5% nationally.

Severe burden reaches 19%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The poverty rate is 26%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10.

It sits 1.2 points above the St. Louis City average of 4.4. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,124 filings here across 13 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2012 at 16.9% of renter households.

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.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 29510105300

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 29510105300?

Census tract 29510105300 in the West End neighborhood scores 5.6/10 (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 29510105300?

Median gross rent is $669/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 67% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 29510105300?

26.2% of residents in tract 29510105300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,127.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 29510105300?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 95th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 98th, household 70th, minority 89th, housing 83th.
Q5

Is tract 29510105300 considered part of West End?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 29510105300 fall within West End (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 29510105300?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 1,124 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 29510105300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 11.13% of renter households, peaking at 16.9% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 29510105300 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.97× 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.
Q8

What share of households in tract 29510105300 struggle to pay rent?

About 31.6% 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. 26.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9

How does tract 29510105300 compare to St. Louis overall?

Tract 29510105300 scores 5.6/10, higher 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 29510105300 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

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