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Neighborhood · Ranked #31,049 of 84,120 nationally

Holly Hills Eviction Risk: Moderate , St. Louis

Tract 29510115400 · St. Louis city, MO · pop 2,875 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi

Tract 29510115400 sits in the Holly Hills area of St. Louis, MO, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.1/10. Population here is 2,875. Against St. Louis City at 41.6%, 25% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Risk score
5.1
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 9% Stable renters 27% Owners 64%
Tract context
Occupied units1,204
Renter share35.9%
SVI overall0.88
Poverty rate24.6%
Median income$48,910

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 2 tracts In Holly Hills
Very High
Within parent city
65 th percentile
Rank, 65th percentileLowHigh
#37 of 104 tracts In St. Louis
Elevated
Within county
65 th percentile
Rank, 65th percentileLowHigh
#37 of 104 tracts In St. Louis city
Elevated
Within state
87 th percentile
Rank, 87th percentileLowHigh
#209 of 1,654 tracts In Missouri
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across St. Louis and the region

Centroid at 38.5750, -90.2605 · click any tract to drill in

Why Holly Hills scores 5.1

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
24.6% poverty · this tract
6.1
Supply constraint
$914 rent vs county FMR
2.5
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 Holly Hills compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Holly Hills risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.1This tracttract 1154004.2St. Louisparent city4.4Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 88

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)

  • 462Total filings over 13 yrs
  • 8.06%Avg annual filing rate
  • 9.0%Peak (2010)
  • 39Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2004 to 2017
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 29510115400
Filings climbed 70% over the past 13 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 239Total filings 2020-21
  • 3.1Avg monthly (observed)
  • 3.0Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 1.04×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline

Pandemic filings ran near 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 Holly 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Holly Hills

The dominant input is regional political climate at 8.3/10. Severe burden reaches 20%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10. The poverty rate is 25%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 462 filings here across 13 tracked years. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 17.6% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Housing insecurity runs 21.8% against 14.2% nationally.

Against the St. Louis City average of 4.4, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.7 points. The worst year on record was 2010, when 9.0% of renter households were served.

At $914 a month, rents run 8% under what the rest of St. Louis commands. 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 8.1% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 63rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the MO average is 3.8, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter.

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 29510115400

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 29510115400?

Census tract 29510115400 in the Holly Hills neighborhood scores 5.1/10 (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 29510115400?

Median gross rent is $914/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 25% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 29510115400?

24.6% of residents in tract 29510115400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,875.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 29510115400?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 88th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 95th, household 64th, minority 65th, housing 78th.
Q5

Is tract 29510115400 considered part of Holly Hills?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 29510115400 fall within Holly Hills (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 29510115400?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 462 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 29510115400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 8.06% of renter households, peaking at 9.0% in 2010. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 29510115400 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 1.04× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings returned near baseline. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Southwest Oregon eviction laws, OR), 2020-2021.
Q8

What share of households in tract 29510115400 struggle to pay rent?

About 21.8% 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. 17.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9

How does tract 29510115400 compare to St. Louis overall?

Tract 29510115400 scores 5.1/10, 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 29510115400 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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