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St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis AREA, Missouri

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  1. Data on renter population and median rent drawn from the American Community Survey (ACS). Details of the eviction process from the LSC Eviction Laws Database.

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Filing Rates Over the Past 12 Months

Trends in eviction filings

This plot shows monthly eviction filings in St. Louis City and St. Louis County over the past 12 months. Filings are displayed relative to average filings for the same set of months across 2023 and 2024 (the “baseline”). You can toggle the plot to display filing counts.1 2

  1. Average eviction filings taken from Eviction Lab data for 2012, 2013, 2015, and 2016
  2. Filing data for 2020 onward collected by January Advisors

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Eviction filings by defendant race/ethnicity and gender

There are often large racial/ethnic and gender disparities in eviction risk. Here, we estimate the demographic characteristics of those filed against for eviction over the past 12 months. We compare to data from the ACS that show the share of renters in the same categories.1

Share of eviction filings

Share of renters

FILINGS OVER THE PAST 12 MONTHS BY DEFENDANT RACE/ETHNICITY AND GENDER

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  • Statistics rely on imputation of race/ethnicity and gender based on defendant names and addresses. We refer to “gender” throughout while acknowledging necessarily limitations of the imputation process and its inability to capture important subtleties in individuals’ gender identification. A complete description of this process can be found in the ETS methods page. ACS data are from 2016-2020 five-year estimates.

Eviction Hotspots

Eviction filings aren’t spread evenly across cities: a small number of buildings are responsible for a disproportionate share of eviction cases. This pattern, which existed before the pandemic, continued in 2020 and beyond. We analyzed eviction records in St. Louis to determine where the most cases are being filed. This is a list of eviction hot spots—the 10 buildings responsible for the most filings—over the course of the past 12 months. We also display the plaintiff name most often listed with a given building in the court filings. Below we map the top 100 hotspots across the county.

Eviction Hotspot data are updated semi-annually.

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The geography of eviction filings

St. Louis is made up of 341 census tracts. In each of those tracts, we map the number of eviction filings over the past 12 months. If you toggle below you can see these numbers as eviction filing rates—the number of eviction filings divided by the number of renter households in the area—or compared to the typical number of filings in 2023–2024 (the “baseline”).1 2

  1. Average eviction filings taken from Eviction Lab data for 2012, 2013, 2015, and 2016
  2. Tract-level breakdown of renter race/ethnicity determined using American Community Survey (ACS) estimates for 2016–2020.
  3. Tract-level eviction data are updated more regularly than eviction hotspots, which may result in some disagreement in filing counts. We exclude buildings with fewer than 15 filings, in which case fewer than 100 buildings will be displayed.

On map, we also plot the location of the top 100 eviction hotspots in the county (see above). Hover over the circles to see more information about filings from these locations.3

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The demographics of eviction filings

Eviction filings by neighborhood race/ethnicity

American Community Survey (ACS) data allow us to categorize neighborhoods by their racial/ethnic majority: White, Black, or Other/None. This barplot shows the distribution of eviction filings in the past 12 months by neighborhood racial/ethnic majority.

Toggle the figure to compare recent filings to average filings in 2023–2024, keeping constant the racial/ethnic majority of each neighborhood.1

  1. Average eviction filings taken from Eviction Lab data for 2012, 2013, 2015, and 2016

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Eviction filings by defendant race/ethnicity and gender

There are often large racial/ethnic and gender disparities in eviction risk. Here, we estimate the demographic characteristics of those filed against for eviction over the past 12 months. We compare to data from the ACS that show the share of renters in the same categories.1

Share of eviction filings

Share of renters

FILINGS OVER THE PAST 12 MONTHS BY DEFENDANT RACE/ETHNICITY AND GENDER

Get the data for these figures
  • Statistics rely on imputation of race/ethnicity and gender based on defendant names and addresses. We refer to “gender” throughout while acknowledging necessarily limitations of the imputation process and its inability to capture important subtleties in individuals’ gender identification. A complete description of this process can be found in the ETS methods page. ACS data are from 2016-2020 five-year estimates.

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