Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Compton Heights Eviction Risk: Lower , St. Louis
Tract 29510117400 · St. Louis city, MO · pop 4,004 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
29510117400 is a census tract in the Compton Heights area of St. Louis, MO. It scores 3/10 for landlords. Population here is 4,004. Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1.1/10.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 15%
Stable renters 28%
Owners 57%
Tract context
Occupied units1,905
Renter share42.9%
SVI overall0.33
Poverty rate4.3%
Median income$105,842
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
0
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
8
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
33
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across St. Louis and the region
Centroid at 38.6095, -90.2374 · click any tract to drill in
Why Compton Heights scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal 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
4.3% poverty · this tract
1.1
Supply constraint
$1,166 rent vs county FMR
4.6
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 Compton Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 33
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 27%Socioeconomic
- 19%Household composition
- 45%Racial/ethnic minority
- 59%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 96%Grade B
- 3%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)
- 730Total filings over 13 yrs
- 6.28%Avg annual filing rate
- 8.5%Peak (2004)
- 34Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 64% over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 183Total filings 2020-21
- 2.4Avg monthly (observed)
- 2.9Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.83×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Southwest Oregon, OR as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
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.
- 8.6%Housing insecurity
- 6.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 7.4%Food insecurity
- 4.9%SNAP enrollment
- 5.4%Transit barriers
- 4.9%No health insurance
- 14.5%Frequent mental distress
- 23.6%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Compton Heights
Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 8.3/10. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10. It sits 1.4 points below the St. Louis City average of 4.4.
15% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Cost burden runs 35% here against 41.6% across St. Louis City.
Food insecurity runs 7.4% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 4.9% against 15.2% nationally.
Average gross rent is $1,166, 17% above the St. Louis average. Court records carry 730 eviction filings across 13 observed years. The worst year on record was 2004, when 8.5% 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.
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 29510117400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 29510117400?
Census tract 29510117400 in the Compton 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 29510117400?
Median gross rent is $1,166/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 35% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 29510117400?
4.3% of residents in tract 29510117400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,004.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 29510117400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 33th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 27th, household 19th, minority 45th, housing 59th.
Q5
Is tract 29510117400 considered part of Compton Heights?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 29510117400 fall within Compton Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 29510117400?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 730 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 29510117400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 6.28% of renter households, peaking at 8.5% in 2004. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 29510117400 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.83× 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 29510117400 struggle to pay rent?
About 8.6% 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. 6.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 29510117400 compare to St. Louis overall?
Tract 29510117400 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 29510117400 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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