Mount Pleasant Eviction Risk: Moderate , St. Louis

This is renter territory: 69% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. The severe-burden share is 20%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10.

Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,237 filings here across 13 tracked years.

Housing insecurity runs 22.2% against 14.2% nationally. At $856 a month, rents run 14% under what the rest of St. Louis commands. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 16.1% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

The worst year on record was 2012, when 15.0% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 10.9% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #45,786 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 7.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

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