Ruskin Heights is a neighborhood in southeast Kansas City, Missouri, Jackson County.

Major damage occurred in many rural areas and suburbs, that including Ruskin Heights.

Entire blocks of homes were completely leveled, many of which were swept way with debris and thrown long distances away through nearby fields.

Vehicles were thrown through the air and destroyed, and the steel-reinforced Ruskin Heights High School was badly damaged.

[2] In the 2020 U.S. Census, the racial composition of Ruskin Heights was as follows:[3] There is no data for non-binary, transgender, and any other gendered residents as of 2020.

[2] The economy of Ruskin Heights in the 1990s was stagnating, mostly due to White Americans leaving, and higher crime rates.

This decade is also where Ruskin Heights started to gain a bad reputation, because the stereotype of African Americans as criminals and thugs were at its peak in the 1990s.